Title: Moving WordPress Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Moving WordPress * [hkudrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkudrati/) * (@hkudrati) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/) * Greetings, * Well its kind of a really stupid mistake i made but i need help if there is any other way. * I had my personal site hosted and the hosting company closed down without notice. Thus I had managed to copy all the files from there to my computer. * Now I got Godaddy hosting and want the same post and themes back on it. * I read that I had to export all that before so I can import in this new hosting. * Is there a way I can do with just all files I copied from the old hosting and recover my posts and all. * Desperate 🙁 * Thanks Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/page/2/?output_format=md) * [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/) * (@fonglh) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074569) * No, your posts are in the database. * Unless one of the files you copied is a .sql backup file of your database, you can’t recover your posts. * Thread Starter [hkudrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkudrati/) * (@hkudrati) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074584) * had done site backup , Which does database backup as well . * But i dont see .sql file , the hosting has stopped MYSQL services and still have ftp access to my files. * Huzz * [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/) * (@fonglh) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074588) * Ask your hosts where the database backup file is. It’s also possible it’s a compressed. gz file * Thread Starter [hkudrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkudrati/) * (@hkudrati) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074591) * yes i have that , ” backup-Sep-27-2012-1.tar.gz “ * but hosting are not responding … i had emailed them on Monday about it. * lets say the backup i have might be the one with database , what should i do now ? * Thanks * Huzz * [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/) * (@fonglh) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074600) * Uncompress it with a program like 7zip. * Thread Starter [hkudrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkudrati/) * (@hkudrati) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074601) * yeah then ? * Huzz * [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/) * (@fonglh) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074607) * What do you get? * Thread Starter [hkudrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkudrati/) * (@hkudrati) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074608) * this : > [http://kudrati.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/images/troubleshoot1.tiff](http://kudrati.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/images/troubleshoot1.tiff) * Huzz * [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/) * (@fonglh) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074612) * What’s in the kudrati.net.db file? Try opening it in a text editor and see if they are SQL statements. * Thread Starter [hkudrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkudrati/) * (@hkudrati) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074613) * DNS entries :(( * [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/) * (@fonglh) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074614) * Look around and see if you can find a file with SQL statements. Without that there’s no way to get your content back. * Thread Starter [hkudrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkudrati/) * (@hkudrati) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074639) * ok i got .sql file in one of my old back , should loose few weeks only then.. * What do i do now ? * Thanks, * Huzz * [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/) * (@fonglh) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074641) * Import it into your new host’s database. They should provide a web based tool like phpmyadmin which will make it quite easy to do. If not, ask them for instructions. * You should review the instructions at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress) * [neotrikz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neotrikz/) * (@neotrikz) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074643) * Really hard time for you , bro. You can do nothing without the sql database. * Thread Starter [hkudrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkudrati/) * (@hkudrati) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/#post-3074644) * fonglg , Thanks alot for the help … * site is up and running now !! Whoop whoop though lost about 2 weeks data ! * Thanks for the help… * Cheers Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Moving WordPress’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [moving](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/moving/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 16 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [hkudrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkudrati/) * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-29/page/2/#post-3074645) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics