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Found the problem. It looks like wp-cache was still running, even though it had been deactivated.

To fix, I reactivated the plugin and then disabled it (from options | wp-cache) and THEN deactivated it. Now, caching seems to be off and the site is working as expected.

podz: I have been doing copy/paste operations of individual lines in my .sql file. The problem is that the individual lines in wp_postmeta are so big that I get timeouts when waiting for the paste to complete. Hence, wondering if I can somehow reduce the size of that table.

That said, Kassad’s comment got me thinking… what would be the implications of just leaving out wp_postmeta altogether? (I’ll try doing this later today but just curious if anyone knows offhand what will happen)

I’ll also try BigDump.

Thanks to all who replied.

Thanks, Davus. I actually tried that last night… it didn’t work, either. I do have shell access and tried the mysql command directly. I got back an error that [username] couldn’t access [old database].

Since I’ve been having so much trouble with the import, I thought it would just be easier if I reduce the size of wp_postmeta… then maybe I can do the import through MyPhpAdmin cut and paste.