When I transfer the article :"Arenal Volcano continues"
into the site this is what I get which is the full article with readmore were the full text starts.

Code:

<div class="mosimage" align="center"><img src="images/stories/crheadlines/arenal2.jpg" border="0" alt="Arenal Volcano" title="Arenal Volcano" hspace="6" width="408" height="150" /> <div class="mosimage_caption" align="center" style="text-align: center">Arenal volcano eruption</div></div>The Arenal Volcano, one of Costa Rica's top tourist attractions, continued spewing incandescent materials last week. Days before it had sent ashes flying several kilometers around the La Fortuna area in northwestern Costa Rica. According to the Eliecer Duarte, of the National Vulcanology and Seismology Observatory (OVSICORI), the reason for the recent activity is simple: Arenal is having a growth spurt. <hr id="system-readmore" /><p>Even though it doesn't look it, Arenal is only 40 years old and it has just begun growing. Duarte said the volcano is in the stage of making for room for itself, growing vertically and also laterally, though the crater remains the same size. </p><p>{mos_fb_discuss:18} </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote><div><h4><em> Arenal is not having an eruption right now. There's no lava flowing, but stone avalanches coming down the sides. It's not necessary to issue an emergency at this point. The volcano is growing, and this activity is happening on its northeast side, away from the tourists,” Duarte explained. </em></h4></div></blockquote>

Are you using the standard editor? What do you see when looking at it under Export Content when you go to: "Insert Content Items" and then tick "Arenal Volcano continues" and then the "Edit" icon. Is there content in both boxes? Also I think it would be best if you delete any articles that you have transferred so far and remove them from trash just to make sure there are no conflicts with duplicate names. If it still is not working as expected you could send me the login details if you like and I will take a look at it. If you don't have eXtplorer installed I will need it to make any changes that may be needed to the "export content" files. Here is a Link to: eXtplorer

I am having the same problem
I downloaded your component today as Im moving to 1.5 from 1.1x however when I have imported the content some of the content is not fully there.

I hope there is a fix for this and I will happily donate if someone is able to assist me transferring my data over.

Hi rawroots,

This is caused by one or more characters that the import process is choking on.

Is the text in any language other than English?

Have you copied/pasted anything from MSword into the 1.0+ site in the past because some word punctuation marks will cause this problems as well.

Either way I'm sure we will be able to work through the issue.

And also what version of PHP are you running is on both sites.

Hi Steve
Thanks for your response, I didnt want to start another thread with the same problem so opted to add to this.

Text is all in English

Anything I have ever had in MS Word has been pasted in to notepad first before joomla

Im running JCE editor if that makes any difference

PHP version is 4.4.7

Both are on the same server Im moving to 1.57 which is setup in a folder named /joomlanu which I will then move to the top directory if I manage to get all data over.

Moving from 1.015 to 1.57

QUOTE:
Anything I have ever had in MS Word has been pasted in to notepad first before joomla

The fact that it's been pasted into notepad first will not stop the trouble making characters from word.

The short answer is where ever possible don't use word data in Joomla.

And if at all possible you should update to PHP5.
Although the version you are running is ok for the minimum requirements you will find that the new Joomla 1.5+ series will run match better under PHP5.

QUOTE:
Im running JCE editor if that makes any difference

Could be, when it decodes the data.

Just to make sure, do you have the new database setup with utf8 encoding?

If so what I think would be the best way to work out what is causing the problem is to unzip the:
compiled data (import_content_data) and have a look at "install.mysql.nonutf8.sql"
Scroll through and have a look if there are any strange characters in the content items where it's being cut off.
Note: They may be just small squares.

Once we workout what the hold up is I will put a patch together.
Or you could then do a search and replace then re-zip the import data again.

There are plenty of strange characters e.g. ’ and others replacing ' and - etc.
This is obviously the problem, not that my SQL knowledge is great but looking at PHP MyAdmin the collation of the old database tables is latin1_swedish_ci and the new is utf8_general_ci Im not sure if this would be the problem and I have no idea how to change them tables to match but that could possibly be what needs doing.

QUOTE:
There are plenty of strange characters e.g. ’ and others replacing ' and - etc.

The numbers you see are the numeric equivalent of the character.
When export content compiles the data it will look for characters that will have trouble parsing the installer and will convert them.

Anything around the 8217 range are word punctuation marks which may cause issues.

QUOTE:
collation of the old database tables is latin1_swedish_ci and the new is utf8_general_ci Im not sure if this would be the problem and I have no idea how to change them tables to match but that could possibly be what needs doing.

The tables are as they should be this is part of what export content does, it will make the data ready for utf8.

It also goes through and changes mosimage tags to proper <img tags convert pagebreaks etc.

Basically makes all the changes required so everything will work on a 1.5+ destination site.

So to the problem at hand and the fact we are in different time zones, we could be going back and forth for days so it might be quicker if you just sent me the compiled data and I will have a look at it, make the changes needed and send it back.

How does that sound?

If you decide to, email a download link or the package to joomlaATbestdownloadsites.com
Note: Please send the full "import_content_data" install.

One other thing.
Can you give me the tiles of at least 3 or 4 articles that are being chopped off so I don't have go through looking for them.

Thank you Steve, email sent

Hi Stu,

I have sent it back see how it goes.

Hi Stu,

Did you receive the second email with amended data?