Import large XML into WordPress.com blog

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  abhikhads · Member · Aug 14, 2012 at 2:40 am

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  I am not able to import a large WXR file (90mb) into a new WordPress blog. I’m trying to move from a self hosted WP to WordPress.com. And I searched forums and Googled but there are no answers.
  Blog url: http://careertiger.wordpress.com/

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

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  timethief · Member · Aug 14, 2012 at 2:41 am

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  Have you tried creating several smaller export files and importing them?

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  abhikhads · Member · Aug 14, 2012 at 2:50 am

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  Not yet – can you use 9 files of 10mb each?

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  timethief · Member · Aug 14, 2012 at 3:00 am

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  I have flagged this thread for Staff assistance. Please be paient while waiting for a response.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 14, 2012 at 6:50 am

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  The file itself cant be split, but if you’re using the latest version of WordPress, you should be able to create category or date-specific export files.

  Does that work for you?

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  abhikhads · Member · Aug 14, 2012 at 12:46 pm

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  Unfortunately, I do not have access to wp-admin due to a WP malware. So I have run an XML export from phpmyadmin.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 14, 2012 at 8:10 pm

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  Oh, we won’t be able to import that anyway, we can only directly import WordPress’s WXR-formatted XML export file.

  Are you definitely not able to recover access to the blog itself?