Title: Importing troubles
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Importing troubles

 *  [cheeksofgod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheeksofgod/)
 * (@cheeksofgod)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-troubles/)
 * Background: my account was being moved to a new server. I exported my database
   from MySQL in several different forms — .csv, .xml, .tex and .sql
 * Hosting company managed to lose all of my files in the transfer, so I was left
   entirely dependent upon backups.
 * Opted to install new version of WordPress, but now I have no idea how to restore
   my backed-up database. It wasn’t a WordPress export, so the WordPress import 
   doesn’t work. It looks like the structure of the database from whatever previous
   version of wordpress I was using has changed now that I’m using 2.3 as well.
 * I thought by exporting my databases I would make this easy on myself …

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 *  Thread Starter [cheeksofgod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheeksofgod/)
 * (@cheeksofgod)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-troubles/#post-673961)
 * I guess as added info, I trimmed down the xml export into separate posts and 
   comments files, hoping perhaps those would import via the rss import function.
   It said it was successful and told me happy blogging, but I have posts to show
   for it.

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