Can I recover lost information from a previous blog?

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  onegrainofrice · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 1:25 am

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  Lost previous blog information. I wanted to change my address from a separate domain. When I typed in a new URL in the Dashboard, I can’t get any of my old blog entries.

  Please help!
  Blog url: http://onegrainofrice.wordpress.com/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 1:48 am

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  What was the old blog URL?

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  onegrainofrice · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 1:54 am

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  It used to be accessed by http://www.thetabarfamily.com/blog

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  onegrainofrice · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 3:23 am

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  I found the data in an SQL database. I’ve downloaded it, but I wish it wasn’t all covered in html.

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 5:04 am

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  You can’t move the SQL database directly into your WordPress.COM blog – you can only import it. There are a lot of files in addition to the SQL files in a WordPress.ORG install.

  I don’t know if the staff can help you or not or what your other options might be other than installing in on a new server – it looks like you were using WordPress.ORG 2.6 –

  I will flag this for staff attention to see if they can help or make suggestions for you.

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 5:06 am

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  PS – another option if all else fails would be to copy and paste as much information from search engine Cache’s into your WordPress.COM blog

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 26, 2012 at 6:45 am

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  I may be able to help, but I can’t make any promises just yet. Do you have all the data in a .sql file?

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  onegrainofrice · Member · Jun 26, 2012 at 10:57 am

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  There are about 6 databases. I can download them in about 10 different formats (php, csv, xml, doc, sql, pdf…). I can see the text of the posts but I can’t get it formatted. I’m aware there’s a theme probably in a css. I tried the xml, but I’ve only worked with html.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 26, 2012 at 7:01 pm

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  I just need the MySQL database for the blog exported in a .sql file.

  Are you able to get that?