Title: File Transfer Problem
Last modified: October 24, 2020

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# File Transfer Problem

 *  [Engine44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engine44/)
 * (@engine44)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-transfer-problem/)
 * Hello,
 * I developed a site on localhost and it was working fine. I tried to transfer 
   it to my client using Filezilla. I highlighted all the files and dragged them
   to an empty folder of my client’s. It seemed to go ok, but when it was finished,
   I noticed that the wp-includes folder had not transferred. I dragged it over 
   to try again. It didn’t work. Worse, it disappeared off my list of folders and
   files. Using Finder on my Mac, it was also gone from there. Unbelievable! Now
   I can’t access the site at all. I have backup in WP but I can’t get to it. Any
   suggestions, please. Thanks.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-transfer-problem/#post-13576006)
 * Get a fresh copy of WordPress from wordpress.org, extract it, and upload wp-includes
   and its subdirectories into the root of the site on the server.
 *  Thread Starter [Engine44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engine44/)
 * (@engine44)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-transfer-problem/#post-13576135)
 * I was able to fix the problem. It seems that during transfer, Filezilla somehow
   turned a main WP file into a sub-file. When I moved it to its correct position
   in the tree, everything worked. Thanks.

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 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Engine44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engine44/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-transfer-problem/#post-13576135)
 * Status: not resolved

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