What kinds of errors are you seeing?
I took a screenshot, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/64629755/wp-database-import-error.png
I made a mistake earlier today to delete a user which had loads of content attached to it and didn’t ask to be transferred to another user. I made a manual backup a month ago, which I am happy to restore to, but it doesn’t seem to work.
I am not technical at all, so struggle to even understand where to look for the errors.
You’re assistance would be appreciated.
Looks like you have an issue with a table for a plugin (bl_instances?). You’d need to empty that table before you restore a backup copy.
how do I empty the table? can’t find bl_instances did you mean blc_instances? I have NO CLUE!!
OK, so do I just empty the blc_instances table and then try and ‘import’ the backed-up database again?
Yes. That should fix that particular error but I’d advise making a backup of your current database before you try anything.
I had to empty all the tables and then import the database, but it seemed to have done the trick. Thank you very much for your help.
No problem. Glad I could help. 🙂