Importing from Blogger is incomplete

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  wongjeffrey · Member · May 17, 2012 at 5:22 pm

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  Hello!

  I am currently importing my blog from blogger over to my wordpress.com account.

  I was able to get the import to work once, but only the post titles and comments were imported – no post content. I restarted and tried importing again.

  The progress bar is full, but it still says “Importing” on the side. when I view my blog, I have no posts.

  I have tried resetting the importer many times… but I get the same result of no posts being imported over.

  blog url: http://wongjeffrey.wordpress.com

  Thank you for your help!

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

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  timethief · Member · May 17, 2012 at 5:23 pm

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  I’m sorry you are experiencing this issue. Please hang is there as I have flagged this thread for Staff attention.

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  roughseasinthemed · Member · May 17, 2012 at 5:59 pm

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  Ha ha.

  I have been there and done that. I am still loading every single post manually for one of my blogs.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 17, 2012 at 6:58 pm

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  Since you now have post titles, it will consider everything as duplicates and won’t re-import anything.

  I’ll need to empty your blog so you can try again.

  Does your blog only have posts from the failed import?

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  wongjeffrey · Member · May 17, 2012 at 9:15 pm

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  My blog at the moment does not have any posts because I deleted the empty posts and tried to reimport my old blog, but it didn’t work and no posts were imported at all.

  However, even if I try to reset the importer and reimport it, no posts show up.

  Here is what the status bars say when I try to import something:
  

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 17, 2012 at 9:47 pm

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  Your posts are still in the Trash.

  You’ll need to empty that (found in the Posts area of your Dashboard) first.

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  wongjeffrey · Member · May 18, 2012 at 4:14 am

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  hello,
  Trash has been emptied. I tried importing again but the posts are still empty.

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  roughseasinthemed · Member · May 18, 2012 at 6:00 am

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  I had the same experience.

  And when I contacted HEs I was told, sometimes the imports don’t work.

  I tried it for two or three different URLs. I figured blogger didn’t want to lose that particular blog (it was the one that had the most hits of all my blogs).

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 18, 2012 at 6:50 am

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  Ok, one of the importer methods is to upload a Blogger export file. Please give that a shot.

  Also, make sure that you’re uploading your content export, not your template export.

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  wongjeffrey · Member · May 18, 2012 at 2:13 pm

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  hey,

  it worked, thanks!
  I think the trick was to empty the trash… I tried using a Blogger export file before but it didn’t work, possibly because I did not empty the trash.

  thanks again!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 18, 2012 at 7:05 pm

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  You’re welcome!