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  • Thread Starter bexley

    (@bexley)

    Once imported, it is supposed to download your attachements (media) from the old site. That is why has has a checkbox saying that it will do that.

    It had now actually done that but only if you export everything – pages, posts, categories etc….

    I only wanted to export posts so now i have a lot of cleaning up to do but that’s going to take a lot less time than adding the media in again to each post by hand.

    Thread Starter bexley

    (@bexley)

    OK i think i have partially solved this now.

    I exported only my ‘posts’ via the tools>export option in the dashboard.

    This did not copy the images and stuff over despite me ticking the checkbox. Blatantly a bug.

    What i then did was to do a full export, again via the tools>export in the dashboard (and tick the box)

    Ok, so then when i tried to import it told me that my php.ini had a 2M file size limit and failed to import.

    I edited my php.ini to sort that out but it still did not work so i added this to my .htaccess

    php_value upload_max_filesize 50M
    php_value post_max_size 50M
    php_value max_execution_time 500
    php_value max_input_time 500

    and then it worked.

    It’s busy downloading it all now.

    Cant believe how much of a faff that was but alls well that ends well.

    I hope this helps the next person to discover this rather large problem.

    I’m glad i found out about it during a planned upgrade and not while trying to recover from a server failure or something. This bug could well extend your outage by hours and hours

    Thread Starter bexley

    (@bexley)

    ah yes, thank you very much i missed the wood for all of the trees.

    Thank you for you help converting2wp

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