Title: Data serialization during migration
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Data serialization during migration

 *  [lexpresso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lexpresso/)
 * (@lexpresso)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-serialization-during-migration/)
 * Lately, when I’ve migrated sites either from localhost to live host or from a
   sub dir in the live host to the root html dir, cforms and plugins have been renedered
   useless by ‘data serialization.’ For some reason, the data cannot be used when
   the sql is imported to the DB after replacing URLs manually. It forces me to 
   re-populate text widget content and to RESET cforms.
 * Although this hasn’t been a huge issue, it is beginning to get on my nerves and
   it gets worse if I have to do this several during the course of development. 
   I could not find anything at all on the Forum about it…
 * Anyone else have this problem?

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-serialization-during-migration/)
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