I've had a few good stoppers along my cloning journey from 1.7.x to 8.1.x like...
contact
dashtrends
marketplace
welcome
url rewrite & the robots text file, have dogged me, a couple times for an hour or so.
then the damn panda theme wants to be an absolute pain in the arse
It makes me wonder what all the tricks are to reach my journey
is prestools and copyshop_data the solution again? it did get me from 1.6x to 1.7 but I have forgotten how now.
it shouldn't be this hard. I started this site back in the the 1.3.1 days. I will not give up