If all the correct information has been entrered and the button 'Import' has been clicked the whole process starts. A pop-up window appears which merely indicates the progress of the entire operation.

It should be self-explanatory what is being indicated though I'll explain anyway.

You will notice there are two components to the progress indicator. One is the 'bar' indicating percentage done and the other is a figure to the right of the bars. This figure reports the number of records processed per bar.

There are six progress bars:-

• Categories
• Users
• DB Accesses (Record Grab)
• Posts (Imported)
• Comments (Imported)
• Analysing Categories

Most likely Categories and Users should be progressed fairly quickly before DB Accesses and Posts start. Most of the time will probably be spent processing DB Accesses and Posts and their associated comments and categories.

As previously explained, 'DB Accesses' merely represents how many times the program is accessing the database in order to retrieve 'x' number of records in one hit. The 'x' number of records by default is 200. So 1 DB Access equals 200 records received.

As records are retrieved from the database they are processed and converted into Drupal. The actual process of converting into Drupal should tick over at a steady speed. Where the delays will occur are in the retrieving of the records. If retrieving 200 records from a 10,000 record database, that will take some time, be patient.

At the conclusion and barring any problems the program merely reports 'Done'.

That's it, you should have successfully converted records into a Drupal 5.x/6.x database. All you have to do is check from your browser that everything worked.

There are other areas of concern, such as how images and links should be handled. This can be addressed by the use of the 'Search and Replace' module.