[Moin-user] Problem migrating 1.5.8 to 1.6.3

[Thomas Waldmann]

> The data/edit-log file appeared to be corrupted. I compared it the edit-log of
> the wiki I had successfully migrated and realized the format and contents made
> no sense. So I deleted the contents of the file and was able to migrate.

That means you lost the global edit-log. RecentChanges uses it.

You (hopefully) still have all page-local edit-logs (see
data/pages/XXX/edit-log). You could even reproduce the global edit-log
from all local ones.

> But I also lost my account information in the migration. Could that be related?

I don't think so, user profiles are stored in data/user/...

Why did you lose them?