Title: Import, Export
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Import, Export

 *  [birdmcfarland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdmcfarland/)
 * (@birdmcfarland)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-1/)
 * I have a free WordPress blog and recently made the switch to a hosted blog. I’d
   like to import everything from the old to the new…but the max is 2mb and my export
   file is 2.19. How would I go about reducing this without deleting anything from
   the old blog and making another export file? I just don’t want to lose anything
   from the old blog, but in order to make it smaller it seems from my limited knowledge
   that’s what I have to do.

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 *  [Giovanni Marques Costa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmcosta/)
 * (@gmcosta)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-1/#post-661939)
 * your hosted blog do not allow you upload file more than 2mb am I right ?
 *  [theapparatus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theapparatus/)
 * (@theapparatus)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-1/#post-661943)
 * Did you delete the spam queue before exporting? Usually most folks don’t do that
   and wind up with huge exported files.
 *  Thread Starter [birdmcfarland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdmcfarland/)
 * (@birdmcfarland)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-1/#post-661944)
 * right. I’ve been looking around and some of these responses to similar questions
   say that you can change the upload maximum, but I don’t know where or how to 
   do that. Will I need to contact the host to change the upload max?
 *  Thread Starter [birdmcfarland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdmcfarland/)
 * (@birdmcfarland)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-1/#post-661945)
 * No! I didn’t even think about the spam. I’ll try and do that.
 *  [Giovanni Marques Costa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmcosta/)
 * (@gmcosta)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-1/#post-661946)
 * I guess the answer it’s yes, or no (if you have knowledge and permissions to 
   create a local copy of php on your account and change this setting). I had an
   account on Dreamhost and I remeber they make clients do this.
 *  Thread Starter [birdmcfarland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdmcfarland/)
 * (@birdmcfarland)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-1/#post-661950)
 * Deleted the spam, but not enough to allow me to import.
 *  Thread Starter [birdmcfarland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdmcfarland/)
 * (@birdmcfarland)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-1/#post-661953)
 * Could I go into the notepad file and take out things there? All I need to do 
   is shave off just a bit
 *  [theapparatus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theapparatus/)
 * (@theapparatus)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-1/#post-661954)
 * Best bet would be to contact your host as some of them get rather offended if
   endusers try to make changes to php settings without their approval.
 * Here’s a solution for you to try though if you want to: (First hit on a google
   search)
 * [http://www.hmhelpdesk.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=32](http://www.hmhelpdesk.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=32)

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 * [export](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/export/)
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 * [reduce](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/reduce/)
 * [too large](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/too-large/)

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 * Last reply from: [theapparatus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theapparatus/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-export-1/#post-661954)
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