Import says successful but nothing imported
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I created a test wordpress.com site and took a few posts from a specific date range off of my wordpress.org site and imported them to the test site. I received an email saying that the import was completed, but after checking out the test site, nothing has been imported.
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What is the URL of the .wordpress.com blog?
How large is the import file?
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johnwilbankstestdc.wordpress.com
The import was a partial date range export from my site (to large to do one import). It was about 1.5mb
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The file you tried to import only contains author information, so there wasn’t any content to import.
How large is your entire export file?
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Is the site from which you exported your content online and public? If not, the images won’t be included in the export file, as there is no site from which to pull them.
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yep, dccollectors.com. I am keeping the wordpress.com site private until I get everything transferred over and I am sure everything looks good.
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Hmm, that’s weird.
Could you try turning off Photon module in Jetpack and try the import again? If you’d like, I can empty the site first so you don’t run into duplicate content (which should all be in the trash but if there’s no other new content, it would make it cleaner).
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Hmm. I have a couple of additional questions.
1) How large is your export file?
2) Are you trying to import a single file or more than one file broken down by date? Are you able to create a single export file or do you get errors? -
The whole file is around 150mb (quite a large site with about 3500 posts). I am breaking it into chunks and I did just a few months worth from the beginning of the site which equals out to about 3mb.
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Ah, okay, that would explain why it’s not working. What’s happening is that with an export of this size, your server can’t manage all of the tasks needed before it fails. Breaking the export into smaller chunks ends up breaking the image attachment links, so the images don’t get imported.
This isn’t an easy thing to fix, unfortunately. Some ideas that our developers have offered include:
1) Make sure you don’t have spam comments on your site, as that can add to the size of the export (though in your case, I doubt the size is due to spam).
2) Install WP-CLI on your server, and then use its built-in export commands; see http://wp-cli.org/commands/export/
3) Try to increase the maximum possible memory available to PHP for the wp-admin screens; this is dependant on how much memory is available to PHP on the server and its configuration. It defaults to 256Mb. You can do this by editing wp-config.php on the .org site and adding the following before the line that says “That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging”: define( ‘WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘384M’ );
By doing #2 or #3, you should be able to get your server to cooperate long enough to create manageable export files *with* attachments. Short of that, however, you’ll need to manually import your images in the media library.
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Yeah, I’m really sorry for all the hassle. This is an issue with how the export file is generated, coupled with the fact that our importer can’t handle very large files. Sort of the same issue on both ends, in a way.
If you need more help getting your .org export to work, you could try posting on the .org forums, as there may be people there with more expertise on that end of things.
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