Importing from medium

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  lisatestdotcom · Member · Aug 29, 2018 at 4:43 am

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  I tried importing the export file from medium but it keeps saying it can’t unzip my files. Help please!

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  fstat · Staff · Aug 29, 2018 at 6:36 am

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  Hi there,

  Have you tried exporting the file again from Medium just in case the one you have is corrupted?

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  lisatestdotcom · Member · Aug 29, 2018 at 4:39 pm

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  Not yet I’ll give it a try.

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 29, 2018 at 7:58 pm

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  @lisatestdotcom thanks, your error does make it sound like a corrupt file.

  If that doesn’t work, though, please let us know.

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  lisatestdotcom · Member · Aug 30, 2018 at 11:34 pm

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  Ok, I got another copy of the export from medium and it still says it can’t unzip the file. The file format from medium looks like this.

  2018-02-28_Thank-you-Stephen-for-sharing-your-experience–2db2254ee3de.html

  Anything else I can try?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 31, 2018 at 6:12 am

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  That file name you provided ends in .html. The importer is looking for a file ending in .zip.

  You need to import the entire .zip folder you got from Medium. You cannot import only one file for one post. The Medium importer does not work that way.