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"`…(or any other text would work) , saved, and rezipped it all up and tried again.This time, all the posts were imported. But still no media. So it seemed that my workaround method for reducing the file size was stopping the media from being imported. Support increased my limits for me I tried with my full 540MB file. But still no media were imported.I resigned myself to having to upload them to the media library manually, and re-attaching each one to its parent post, one by one. A few a day would get me there eventually, but it would be tedious.But next day I got another email from Support, who had noticed something about the file paths in outbox.json. They all had an extra string at the start of the attachment urls. **I am an idiot!** This was the same problem [@obenland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obenland/) found before in [this post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mastodon-beta/page/3/#post-18743109). Okay, not exactly the same… I had assumed the mention of the older version of Mastodon in that archive was the problem, and mentally written it off as the cause. This time though, the attachment paths didn’t have the/v1/AUTH\_011…[etc]. string at the start, but did have just/mothsocial/media\_attachments/files/110/…[ etc]…6a25.jpegSo I did a find-and-replace-all of…`"url":"/mothsocial/`to`"url":"/`… tried again (having erased all previously imported posts, and emptied the trash, just for good measure), and…SUCCESS! All posts imported, and all media imported and attached to their parent posts. Yay!So, it looks like this server-name-at- the-start-of-the-attachment-file-path is still an issue in Mastodon v4.[whichever version moth social was running in Dec 2024]. * Last thing. Now it seemed like it wasn’t my file-size reduction workaround that was the problem after all. To check that, I fixed the empty post and the URL prefix error in a copy of my archive, removed all the mp4s and zipped it up to give me a 130MB archive file. In my test environment, I uploaded and imported this file with AP 7.8.2, and… _“Imported 1,679 posts.Imported 353 comments from self-reply threads.All done. Have fun!”….and all my image media files were imported too. So my workaround to shrink a oversize archive **does** work after all! * However, with this 7.8.2 import, none of the posts from other people that I had replied to were embedded – every one is just displayed as a link. This had worked okay with the dev version of 7.7.0 that I used on my main site. * Hope that’s all useful to someone! Much thanks to my host’s Support team, and to Obenland again. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[ActivityPub] Import Mastodon (Beta)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mastodon-beta/) * Thread Starter [TheVoidTLMB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thevoidtlmb/) * (@thevoidtlmb) * [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mastodon-beta/page/3/#post-18762436) * Reporting back, after successfully importing my Archive #2. (Yay, thanks! 🙂 ) First, I applied the fix for my qoto archive that you suggested in [this post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mastodon-beta/page/3/#post-18743109), and then I tried an import in my test environment, using 7.8 , with classic editor disabled. The import was successful, and the image posts no longer have those [style and gallery tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mastodon-beta/page/3/#post-18744538), just figure tags, so that’s good.The self-reply threading worked. _Replies where we can’t successfully embed the post that’s being replied to [now show a link to the post](https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/2571), rather than just an empty element that’s not helpful._Some of my reply-to-someone- else posts contained an embedded post, and some just contained links, so the above worked too. (Please ignore my comment elsewhere on that, [@obenland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obenland/)) Next I ran the import on my live site, with Classic Editor disabled, using the thread-supporting dev version of 7.7.0. (Because I’m not a fan of webP – my old browsers that I still use don’t support it. Oh well, never mind, move on Void. 🙂 ) Successful import again, but one single post was skipped:_Skipped comments( orphaned self-replies):[https://qoto.org/users/TheVoidTLMB/statuses/110316321360694946](https://qoto.org/users/TheVoidTLMB/statuses/110316321360694946)( My qoto posts are currently all still live, so…) you can see that that post is a self-reply that has an image attachment. WP comments can’t have images (AFAIK?) so that explains why it was skipped, I guess. But it wasn’t skipped in my test environment import – so that’s something you’ve fixed in 7.8. Cool. In the test environment, that comment was added as a reply, but without the image. (Okay, I can manually recreate that one post on my live site if I feel the need.)So, this isn’t a feature request, but more of an observation: Should self-replies with an image attached be handled differently? Add a link to the image file in the media library? I don’t know.A second non-feature-request observation is that the front-end search for WP doesn’t include results from comments. I was confused as to why I couldn’t find a particular post until I figured that out. (It’s not a “post” any more, it’s a “comment”.) I think there are plugins that add that function, though I couldn’t find a free one. I’ve tried to import my third (501MB) archive on my live site, but got an Internal Server Error failure. I have contact my hosts about freeing up temp space on my server, which I hope will fix that. TL;DR – I’m happy, thanks! * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[ActivityPub] Comment with a (failed) mention not federated](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-with-a-failed-mention-not-federated/) * Thread Starter [TheVoidTLMB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thevoidtlmb/) * (@thevoidtlmb) * [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-with-a-failed-mention-not-federated/#post-18746158) * This appears to have been a glitch. I have since successfully mentioned a bridged bluesky user on the original WP set-up, getting a linked @ name, and federation of the comment. Marking it as Resolved. Thanks. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[ActivityPub] Import Mastodon (Beta)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mastodon-beta/) * Thread Starter [TheVoidTLMB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thevoidtlmb/) * (@thevoidtlmb) * [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mastodon-beta/page/3/#post-18744570) * Yes. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[ActivityPub] Import Mastodon (Beta)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mastodon-beta/) * Thread Starter [TheVoidTLMB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thevoidtlmb/) * (@thevoidtlmb) * [7 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-mastodon-beta/page/3/#post-18744538) * Retested an import of my archive #4 in my test environment (with the thread-supporting version of AP you sent me, [@obenland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obenland/)), and the post there with an image was included at full size. So then I ran the import of #4 on my live site (AP 7.7.1), and that post again has a non-clickable thumbnail embed. Looking at the page source, my live site has * `)