Title: Retrieve old content
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Retrieve old content

 *  [paulrey27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulrey27/)
 * (@paulrey27)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-old-content/)
 * Hi!
    I had a previous site posted…without thinking I pulled all the folders/file
   and stuffed them into a folder to sit on a shelf. I have no deployed a new template
   and begun rebuilding… What i didn’t do was grab the text that populated my portfolio
   projects. Is there any way to get this text by sifting through the files that
   I have shelved? Thanks!

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 *  [Fexin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fexin/)
 * (@fexin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-old-content/#post-4766308)
 * Do you still have the old Database?
 *  Thread Starter [paulrey27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulrey27/)
 * (@paulrey27)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-old-content/#post-4766312)
 * Forgive me Fexin, I’m not versed well on this stuff but somehow manage to make
   it work.
    Are you refering to what I probably backed up through my wordpress 
   dashboard?
 *  Thread Starter [paulrey27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulrey27/)
 * (@paulrey27)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-old-content/#post-4766315)
 * Now that you bring that up… I no longer see a backup option.. o.O
 *  [Fexin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fexin/)
 * (@fexin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-old-content/#post-4766321)
 * 0.o Did you get it working though?
 *  Thread Starter [paulrey27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulrey27/)
 * (@paulrey27)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-old-content/#post-4766322)
 * The current website works.
 * I have the old directory stored on my harddrive…Is it possible to get the old
   data off of it? Like navigate to a folder and find the pages and their content?
 *  [Ambujam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambujam/)
 * (@ambujam)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-old-content/#post-4766338)
 * i have a similar problem i think. i went into the admin panel to update some 
   info and i saw options to change theme appearance so i tried it and when i did,
   i seem to have lost all my content and pages and everything but the blog page.
   so i changed back to the original theme hoping it would all come back but it 
   didnt… is there anyway to find old content and pages and get it back somehow?
 *  Thread Starter [paulrey27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulrey27/)
 * (@paulrey27)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-old-content/#post-4766414)
 * Anyone?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-old-content/#post-4766414)
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