I would only want to import a couple tables and any tables they reference. For example, I'd want whatever table holds the reference to the articles which might then link to a table that actually links to the binary data source of the article. I don't want to break things again :-) lol. Bruce
Henny Savenije wrote: > You may try to import the file in MySQL and use > the update script to update the database. Make a backup before you try this. > > At 09:50 ¿ÀÀü 2010-09-13, you wrote: >> Hello all, >> I had a somewhat small wiki with not a lot of content in it, so >> when things went wrong with my mediawiki 1.15.x installation upgrade to >> mediawiki 1.16.0, I just started with a fresh install. At about the >> time that I figured out that mediawiki 1.16 was the latest version and I >> was using 1.15.x, I also was running into an error when I added a couple >> extensions. It was telling me that a cache table did not exist and this >> was crashing my site, my wiki. I couldn't just create an empty table >> because I had no idea how many columns were in that table. >> Anyway, I thought with the new installation I could bring in >> the content, the articles from the old installation. The problem is >> that in looking at my exported db, a mysql db, that I exported from >> phpmyAdmin and my cpanel, and from just browsing the db, I see that the >> content of the articles are in binary files. So, it's not text that I >> can just copy and paste into new articles - I only had about 10 of them. >> Is there a way to get at those binary files that contain the text of >> the articles, and the wiki code and somehow either import it into my new >> wiki install or look at it and examine it in some way so that I could >> copy and paste the content so as to recreate the articles. >> I should note that I don't seem to have shell access, so I have to >> use the cpanel and phpmyadmin. >> Thanks for any tips, >> Bruce >> >> -- >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> B. M. Whealton - Web Developer, Programmer, Owner: >> Future Wave Designs: http://FutureWaveDesigns.com >> "On Being a Poet and Other Existential Ideas":> >> http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/words/ >> Publisher of Word Salad Poetry Magazine: >> http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/ - Submit your poetry >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3131 >> - Release Date: 09/13/10 03:34:00 > > _ _ > (o) (o) > oOOO----(_)----OOOo--- > Henny (Lee Hae Kang) > ----------------------------- > http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr Portal to all my sites > http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr > (in English) Feel free to discover Korea with Hendrick Hamel (1653-1666) > http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/indexk2.htm In Korean > http://www.hendrick-hamel.henny-savenije.pe.kr/Dutch In Dutch > http://www.vos.henny-savenije.pe.kr Frits Vos > Article about Witsen and Eibokken and his first Korean-Dutch dictionary > http://www.cartography.henny-savenije.pe.kr (in > English) Korea through Western Cartographic eyes > http://www.hwasong.henny-savenije.pe.kr Hwasong the fortress in Suwon > http://www.oldKorea.henny-savenije.pe.kr Old Korea in pictures > http://www.british.henny-savenije.pe.kr A British encounter in Pusan (1797) > http://www.genealogy.henny-savenije.pe.kr/ Genealogy > http://www.henny-savenije.pe.kr/phorum Bulletin board for Korean studies > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ B. M. Whealton - Web Developer, Programmer, Owner: Future Wave Designs: http://FutureWaveDesigns.com "On Being a Poet and Other Existential Ideas":> http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/words/ Publisher of Word Salad Poetry Magazine: http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/ - Submit your poetry ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
