Importing from Posterous

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  ooteeny · Member · Apr 9, 2013 at 12:35 pm

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  Hello, I’m trying to import my blog from Posterous. I’ve looked at the help page and followed all the directions but I keep getting the following comment when I try to import my “wordpress_export_1.xml” file:

  Sorry, there has been an error
  The file is not an xml file. Please see instructions for downloading and using the Posterous backup file.

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  danielisreading · Member · Apr 9, 2013 at 12:41 pm

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  This seems to be happening for a number of people, so this thread will be tagged for staff to help you, please subscribe to be notified of any replies

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  ooteeny · Member · Apr 9, 2013 at 12:47 pm

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  Thank you! I just did a quick search for answers and I can see I’m not the only one with this problem :(

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 9, 2013 at 9:59 pm

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  Would you please try a different browser for this, like Firefox or Chrome?

  http://browsehappy.com/

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  ooteeny · Member · Apr 10, 2013 at 9:27 am

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  Thank you! I used Firefox and it worked straight away, swapping browsers was about the only thing I hadn’t tried.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 10, 2013 at 5:52 pm

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  You’re welcome!