Many online forums use vBulletin as their forum engine. For each forum user, vBulletin provides a limited inbox for private messages. It also lets users to download their inbox as a single XML file.
vBulletin PM Reader is a free utility for managing your private messages in different vBulletin forums locally. It imports XML files generated by vBulletin, parses all the messages, and stores them in a local database.
vBulletin PM Reader can recognize BBCode formatting tags and smilies in messages and generate appropriate text formatting for them in its preview pane and exported HTML files.
Different smilies sets could be assigned to different forum data files.
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I am having some troubles with the program though. Often when I import an XML file it has a warning notifiction saying "_____ is already found in the database. Do you want to update the existing record?"
I assume this means that it is a second PM with the same subject title. So I click 'yes' to add it to the same record. After this I sometimes I get a message saying, "An error occurred while importing XML nodes to the database." Then I click OK. And I get another message like the first one, I click 'yes' to add to the record. And then it loads all my PM's very nicely. I cannot see the error.
But if I do not get the error message it just keeps saying "_____ is already found in the database. Do you want to update the existing record?" I get many many many of these boxes and the program crashes.
Do you understand what is happening here? Do you have any advice?
Thank you very much for your time.