diff --git a/bin/convert.js b/bin/convert.js
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-const startTime = Date.now();
-const fs = require('fs');
-const ueberDB = require('../src/node_modules/ueberdb2');
-const mysql = require('../src/node_modules/ueberdb2/node_modules/mysql');
-const async = require('../src/node_modules/async');
-const Changeset = require('ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/Changeset');
-const randomString = require('ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/pad_utils').randomString;
-const AttributePool = require('ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/AttributePool');
-
-const settingsFile = process.argv[2];
-const sqlOutputFile = process.argv[3];
-
-// stop if the settings file is not set
-if (!settingsFile || !sqlOutputFile) {
-  console.error('Use: node convert.js $SETTINGSFILE $SQLOUTPUT');
-  process.exit(1);
-}
-
-log('read settings file...');
-// read the settings file and parse the json
-const settings = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(settingsFile, 'utf8'));
-log('done');
-
-log('open output file...');
-const sqlOutput = fs.openSync(sqlOutputFile, 'w');
-const sql = 'SET CHARACTER SET UTF8;\n' +
-          'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `store` ( \n' +
-          '`key` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL , \n' +
-          '`value` LONGTEXT NOT NULL , \n' +
-          'PRIMARY KEY (  `key` ) \n' +
-          ') ENGINE = INNODB;\n' +
-          'START TRANSACTION;\n\n';
-fs.writeSync(sqlOutput, sql);
-log('done');
-
-const etherpadDB = mysql.createConnection({
-  host: settings.etherpadDB.host,
-  user: settings.etherpadDB.user,
-  password: settings.etherpadDB.password,
-  database: settings.etherpadDB.database,
-  port: settings.etherpadDB.port,
-});
-
-// get the timestamp once
-const timestamp = Date.now();
-
-let padIDs;
-
-async.series([
-  // get all padids out of the database...
-  function (callback) {
-    log('get all padIds out of the database...');
-
-    etherpadDB.query('SELECT ID FROM PAD_META', [], (err, _padIDs) => {
-      padIDs = _padIDs;
-      callback(err);
-    });
-  },
-  function (callback) {
-    log('done');
-
-    // create a queue with a concurrency 100
-    const queue = async.queue((padId, callback) => {
-      convertPad(padId, (err) => {
-        incrementPadStats();
-        callback(err);
-      });
-    }, 100);
-
-    // set the step callback as the queue callback
-    queue.drain = callback;
-
-    // add the padids to the worker queue
-    for (let i = 0, length = padIDs.length; i < length; i++) {
-      queue.push(padIDs[i].ID);
-    }
-  },
-], (err) => {
-  if (err) throw err;
-
-  // write the groups
-  let sql = '';
-  for (const proID in proID2groupID) {
-    const groupID = proID2groupID[proID];
-    const subdomain = proID2subdomain[proID];
-
-    sql += `REPLACE INTO store VALUES (${etherpadDB.escape(`group:${groupID}`)}, ${etherpadDB.escape(JSON.stringify(groups[groupID]))});\n`;
-    sql += `REPLACE INTO store VALUES (${etherpadDB.escape(`mapper2group:subdomain:${subdomain}`)}, ${etherpadDB.escape(groupID)});\n`;
-  }
-
-  // close transaction
-  sql += 'COMMIT;';
-
-  // end the sql file
-  fs.writeSync(sqlOutput, sql, undefined, 'utf-8');
-  fs.closeSync(sqlOutput);
-
-  log('finished.');
-  process.exit(0);
-});
-
-function log(str) {
-  console.log(`${(Date.now() - startTime) / 1000}\t${str}`);
-}
-
-let padsDone = 0;
-
-function incrementPadStats() {
-  padsDone++;
-
-  if (padsDone % 100 == 0) {
-    const averageTime = Math.round(padsDone / ((Date.now() - startTime) / 1000));
-    log(`${padsDone}/${padIDs.length}\t${averageTime} pad/s`);
-  }
-}
-
-var proID2groupID = {};
-var proID2subdomain = {};
-var groups = {};
-
-function convertPad(padId, callback) {
-  const changesets = [];
-  const changesetsMeta = [];
-  const chatMessages = [];
-  const authors = [];
-  let apool;
-  let subdomain;
-  let padmeta;
-
-  async.series([
-    // get all needed db values
-    function (callback) {
-      async.parallel([
-        // get the pad revisions
-        function (callback) {
-          const sql = 'SELECT * FROM `PAD_CHAT_TEXT` WHERE NUMID = (SELECT `NUMID` FROM `PAD_CHAT_META` WHERE ID=?)';
-
-          etherpadDB.query(sql, [padId], (err, results) => {
-            if (!err) {
-              try {
-                // parse the pages
-                for (let i = 0, length = results.length; i < length; i++) {
-                  parsePage(chatMessages, results[i].PAGESTART, results[i].OFFSETS, results[i].DATA, true);
-                }
-              } catch (e) { err = e; }
-            }
-
-            callback(err);
-          });
-        },
-        // get the chat entries
-        function (callback) {
-          const sql = 'SELECT * FROM `PAD_REVS_TEXT` WHERE NUMID = (SELECT `NUMID` FROM `PAD_REVS_META` WHERE ID=?)';
-
-          etherpadDB.query(sql, [padId], (err, results) => {
-            if (!err) {
-              try {
-                // parse the pages
-                for (let i = 0, length = results.length; i < length; i++) {
-                  parsePage(changesets, results[i].PAGESTART, results[i].OFFSETS, results[i].DATA, false);
-                }
-              } catch (e) { err = e; }
-            }
-
-            callback(err);
-          });
-        },
-        // get the pad revisions meta data
-        function (callback) {
-          const sql = 'SELECT * FROM `PAD_REVMETA_TEXT` WHERE NUMID = (SELECT `NUMID` FROM `PAD_REVMETA_META` WHERE ID=?)';
-
-          etherpadDB.query(sql, [padId], (err, results) => {
-            if (!err) {
-              try {
-                // parse the pages
-                for (let i = 0, length = results.length; i < length; i++) {
-                  parsePage(changesetsMeta, results[i].PAGESTART, results[i].OFFSETS, results[i].DATA, true);
-                }
-              } catch (e) { err = e; }
-            }
-
-            callback(err);
-          });
-        },
-        // get the attribute pool of this pad
-        function (callback) {
-          const sql = 'SELECT `JSON` FROM `PAD_APOOL` WHERE `ID` = ?';
-
-          etherpadDB.query(sql, [padId], (err, results) => {
-            if (!err) {
-              try {
-                apool = JSON.parse(results[0].JSON).x;
-              } catch (e) { err = e; }
-            }
-
-            callback(err);
-          });
-        },
-        // get the authors informations
-        function (callback) {
-          const sql = 'SELECT * FROM `PAD_AUTHORS_TEXT` WHERE NUMID = (SELECT `NUMID` FROM `PAD_AUTHORS_META` WHERE ID=?)';
-
-          etherpadDB.query(sql, [padId], (err, results) => {
-            if (!err) {
-              try {
-                // parse the pages
-                for (let i = 0, length = results.length; i < length; i++) {
-                  parsePage(authors, results[i].PAGESTART, results[i].OFFSETS, results[i].DATA, true);
-                }
-              } catch (e) { err = e; }
-            }
-
-            callback(err);
-          });
-        },
-        // get the pad information
-        function (callback) {
-          const sql = 'SELECT JSON FROM `PAD_META` WHERE ID=?';
-
-          etherpadDB.query(sql, [padId], (err, results) => {
-            if (!err) {
-              try {
-                padmeta = JSON.parse(results[0].JSON).x;
-              } catch (e) { err = e; }
-            }
-
-            callback(err);
-          });
-        },
-        // get the subdomain
-        function (callback) {
-          // skip if this is no proPad
-          if (padId.indexOf('$') == -1) {
-            callback();
-            return;
-          }
-
-          // get the proID out of this padID
-          const proID = padId.split('$')[0];
-
-          const sql = 'SELECT subDomain FROM pro_domains WHERE ID = ?';
-
-          etherpadDB.query(sql, [proID], (err, results) => {
-            if (!err) {
-              subdomain = results[0].subDomain;
-            }
-
-            callback(err);
-          });
-        },
-      ], callback);
-    },
-    function (callback) {
-      // saves all values that should be written to the database
-      const values = {};
-
-      // this is a pro pad, let's convert it to a group pad
-      if (padId.indexOf('$') != -1) {
-        const padIdParts = padId.split('$');
-        const proID = padIdParts[0];
-        const padName = padIdParts[1];
-
-        let groupID;
-
-        // this proID is not converted so far, do it
-        if (proID2groupID[proID] == null) {
-          groupID = `g.${randomString(16)}`;
-
-          // create the mappers for this new group
-          proID2groupID[proID] = groupID;
-          proID2subdomain[proID] = subdomain;
-          groups[groupID] = {pads: {}};
-        }
-
-        // use the generated groupID;
-        groupID = proID2groupID[proID];
-
-        // rename the pad
-        padId = `${groupID}$${padName}`;
-
-        // set the value for this pad in the group
-        groups[groupID].pads[padId] = 1;
-      }
-
-      try {
-        const newAuthorIDs = {};
-        const oldName2newName = {};
-
-        // replace the authors with generated authors
-        // we need to do that cause where the original etherpad saves pad local authors, the new (lite) etherpad uses them global
-        for (var i in apool.numToAttrib) {
-          var key = apool.numToAttrib[i][0];
-          const value = apool.numToAttrib[i][1];
-
-          // skip non authors and anonymous authors
-          if (key != 'author' || value == '') continue;
-
-          // generate new author values
-          const authorID = `a.${randomString(16)}`;
-          const authorColorID = authors[i].colorId || Math.floor(Math.random() * (exports.getColorPalette().length));
-          const authorName = authors[i].name || null;
-
-          // overwrite the authorID of the attribute pool
-          apool.numToAttrib[i][1] = authorID;
-
-          // write the author to the database
-          values[`globalAuthor:${authorID}`] = {colorId: authorColorID, name: authorName, timestamp};
-
-          // save in mappers
-          newAuthorIDs[i] = authorID;
-          oldName2newName[value] = authorID;
-        }
-
-        // save all revisions
-        for (var i = 0; i < changesets.length; i++) {
-          values[`pad:${padId}:revs:${i}`] = {changeset: changesets[i],
-            meta: {
-              author: newAuthorIDs[changesetsMeta[i].a],
-              timestamp: changesetsMeta[i].t,
-              atext: changesetsMeta[i].atext || undefined,
-            }};
-        }
-
-        // save all chat messages
-        for (var i = 0; i < chatMessages.length; i++) {
-          values[`pad:${padId}:chat:${i}`] = {text: chatMessages[i].lineText,
-            userId: oldName2newName[chatMessages[i].userId],
-            time: chatMessages[i].time};
-        }
-
-        // generate the latest atext
-        const fullAPool = (new AttributePool()).fromJsonable(apool);
-        const keyRev = Math.floor(padmeta.head / padmeta.keyRevInterval) * padmeta.keyRevInterval;
-        let atext = changesetsMeta[keyRev].atext;
-        let curRev = keyRev;
-        while (curRev < padmeta.head) {
-          curRev++;
-          const changeset = changesets[curRev];
-          atext = Changeset.applyToAText(changeset, atext, fullAPool);
-        }
-
-        values[`pad:${padId}`] = {atext,
-          pool: apool,
-          head: padmeta.head,
-          chatHead: padmeta.numChatMessages};
-      } catch (e) {
-        console.error(`Error while converting pad ${padId}, pad skipped`);
-        console.error(e.stack ? e.stack : JSON.stringify(e));
-        callback();
-        return;
-      }
-
-      let sql = '';
-      for (var key in values) {
-        sql += `REPLACE INTO store VALUES (${etherpadDB.escape(key)}, ${etherpadDB.escape(JSON.stringify(values[key]))});\n`;
-      }
-
-      fs.writeSync(sqlOutput, sql, undefined, 'utf-8');
-      callback();
-    },
-  ], callback);
-}
-
-/**
- * This parses a Page like Etherpad uses them in the databases
- * The offsets describes the length of a unit in the page, the data are
- * all values behind each other
- */
-function parsePage(array, pageStart, offsets, data, json) {
-  let start = 0;
-  const lengths = offsets.split(',');
-
-  for (let i = 0; i < lengths.length; i++) {
-    let unitLength = lengths[i];
-
-    // skip empty units
-    if (unitLength == '') continue;
-
-    // parse the number
-    unitLength = Number(unitLength);
-
-    // cut the unit out of data
-    const unit = data.substr(start, unitLength);
-
-    // put it into the array
-    array[pageStart + i] = json ? JSON.parse(unit) : unit;
-
-    // update start
-    start += unitLength;
-  }
-}