Finally figured this out – The delete function merely moves the slide show to trash; Once you empty trash you can reuse the slideshow id.
Solved – Somehow my Web.Config file was overwritten and the Rewrite rules were toast. Grabbing the web.config from the production server solved the problem.
Mert,
Thanks, I never went to the migration assistant since I knew that it uses FTP but this makes perfect sense. On my next migration I’ll try this. In the short term I had done manual backups of the source files (just using 7Zip) and database (using MySQL Workbench). I found used the script suggested on the “Moving WordPress” article on the Codex (SearchReplaceDB21). Your method, even now, should be easier.
-thanks-
Thanks – That’s enough to get me started.
