Title: Wrong file encoding error
Last modified: April 12, 2017

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# Wrong file encoding error

 *  [lfirth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lfirth/)
 * (@lfirth)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-file-encoding-error/)
 * I am trying to move a multisite development site from my desktop computer to 
   a laptop and am using Migrate DB to move the database as the path to the source
   files is different on my laptop. The resultant sql export fails when I try to
   run it on my laptop with the error:
 * “Wrong file encoding at file offer range (61414, 155647), execution is stopped(
   23 queries has been run so far)”
 * The file won’t open in my text editor as it says the same thing, “Unknown Encoding”.
 * Any suggestions?

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-file-encoding-error/)
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