CSV export/import issues 1.5 to 1.7

[markoatonc]

When I try to export products from old prestashop 1.5 to the new 1.7 I am only able to get the name/price/category data. Descriptions and summaries  are inalienable.

The things that are actually important as these take long time to manually transfer. (well and photos, but I guess these are impossible to simply transfer)

I tried to export data with SQL database function, but it seems some fields with long, values and filled with ";" and "," characters seem to escape from their fields. which means description often jumps on the next field. which in case of numerical field causes error and failure of entire import process... The program just should ignore these entries, Why the hell does it fail entire 1000+ product import just because it has errors in positions starting from 800... hell. even if it just stopped there and imported the all 800 products properly and skipped rest it would immensely help. But like this It is simply useles..


Does anyone know any way I can easily transfer the products along with the descriptions? And I should stress that Paid modules are out of question.  

[musicmaster]

You can try exporting with Prestools (it is free).

[Abbesnabb]

What about exporting as CSV, editing in Excel or equivalent and then importing to the new store? You could change the ";":s and the ",":s to something else with find and replace before import.