Hi AMurray, here are my answers.
Wouldn't J5 use a table called #_articles (probably like all other versions), plus any others that it needs like categories or workflow etc.
Yes, and I imported all of those tables, creating a record for each article in the #_____workflow_associations table.
Could you use an import/export extension like https://extensions.joomla.org/extension ... -transfer/?
No, we have too many articles and my client unwittingly deleted a bunch of categories that killed the one extension we did try. I had to subsequently restore the deleted categories to even make the CSV-based imports work.
Would a normal site update/migration (3.10.12 > 4.x > 5.x) not work?
No, for the same reason, too many articles. The extensions timed out (504).
Is it a matter of whether the imported articles are somehow unpublished? Do you see a 404 error (indicating unpublished, among other reasons)?
Nope, they're all published/unpublished as they were on the old site.
Could you run a SQL query i.e. to check/update the Published status of all 62,000 articles? I don't know any other reason why they wouldn't show in the front end, apart from either a published status or perhaps a permissions (ACL) issue - were all articles "Public" or "registered"?
Again, I transferred all the tables using CSV as-is (with one or two columns moved around) so all their published/unpublished statuses went with them. All the articles are public.
Do you know to which tables Joomla writes a record each time an article is saved?
Wouldn't J5 use a table called #_articles (probably like all other versions), plus any others that it needs like categories or workflow etc.
Yes, and I imported all of those tables, creating a record for each article in the #_____workflow_associations table.
Could you use an import/export extension like https://extensions.joomla.org/extension ... -transfer/?
No, we have too many articles and my client unwittingly deleted a bunch of categories that killed the one extension we did try. I had to subsequently restore the deleted categories to even make the CSV-based imports work.
Would a normal site update/migration (3.10.12 > 4.x > 5.x) not work?
No, for the same reason, too many articles. The extensions timed out (504).
Is it a matter of whether the imported articles are somehow unpublished? Do you see a 404 error (indicating unpublished, among other reasons)?
Nope, they're all published/unpublished as they were on the old site.
Could you run a SQL query i.e. to check/update the Published status of all 62,000 articles? I don't know any other reason why they wouldn't show in the front end, apart from either a published status or perhaps a permissions (ACL) issue - were all articles "Public" or "registered"?
Again, I transferred all the tables using CSV as-is (with one or two columns moved around) so all their published/unpublished statuses went with them. All the articles are public.
Do you know to which tables Joomla writes a record each time an article is saved?
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