Title: Import content error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Import content error

 *  [kendalshoobridge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kendalshoobridge/)
 * (@kendalshoobridge)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-content-error/)
 * Having difficulty importing content. I have built a test Wordress site, exported
   xml file (5Mg), then tried uploading to new domain. This has failed on IE, Firefox
   and Opera. Have tried downloading export file and re-upload. In IE I get error
   message:
 * Unable to create directory
    /mounted-storage/home34b/sub001/sc27956-WQEU/website/
   1/wp-content/uploads/2008/08. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
 * What is this parent directory? Can you make any suggestion?
    I have spent many
   hours building site (over 500 pages) so don’t want get held up here. Any other
   way to upload, without doing it all again??

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 *  [dontwc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dontwc/)
 * (@dontwc)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-content-error/#post-839887)
 * I have the same problem. It exports as xml. But when it’s time to import, it 
   wants a different wordpress format. What can I do? I already close the old blog.
   This old xml file is all I have…
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-content-error/#post-839888)
 * temporarily chmod /wp-content to 777
    try upload again chmod back to 755
 *  [wpcm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcm/)
 * (@wpcm)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-content-error/#post-839892)
 * What method do you use to get the information (older posts etc.) from an older
   version ie 2.5 onto a latest version moving everything over to it?
 * Is their any steps available to do this?
 * thanks.
 *  [wpcm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpcm/)
 * (@wpcm)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-content-error/#post-839893)
 * Okay thanks Samboll. I was able to navigate the sub folders within the uploads
   folder down to the folder with the current month in this case being 12 (contents
   >uploads>2008>12)for Dec and temporarily chmod to 777 and tried the import procedure
   again and it worked.
 * Just chmod the contents folder did not afford me the import successfully.
    I 
   hope this helps. Just remember to chmod back to 755 when you are done!

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-content-error/#post-839893)
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