Importing galleries to new blog

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  robpacker · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 11:42 pm

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  Hi,
  I have just tried exporting my blog from robpacker.wordpress.com to nomadicpermanence.wordpress.com
  The process has gone fine except for one thing: the galleries that I had on the old site haven’t been imported. Is there any way for these to be imported in bulk?
  Blog url: http://robpacker.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 6, 2012 at 11:51 pm

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  When you imported the blog, did you check the box to also import attached media files?

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  robpacker · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 11:56 pm

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  I can’t find the checkbox either way. The photos that weren’t in galleries were included though.

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  robpacker · Member · Mar 7, 2012 at 12:14 am

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  Could it be because the file I downloaded was only for Posts? I kept getting an error message with the All Content file, maybe because I don’t have any Feedbacks.

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  bryanvillarin · Staff · Mar 7, 2012 at 12:50 am

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  Could it be because the file I downloaded was only for Posts?

  Hmm, that shouldn’t be the case.

  I can’t find the checkbox either way.

  After you upload the export file, you can choose the option to Download & import file attachments to move your media files.

  For more details, please see Moving Between WordPress.com Blogs.

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  robpacker · Member · Mar 7, 2012 at 11:51 am

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  I deleted everything and tried again. I don’t get the option to Download & Import file attachments.

  What I see is:

  Download Media
  
  If you exported your site’s media files, we’ll import those for you automatically.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 7, 2012 at 9:57 pm

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  Two questions:

  1. Can you give me an example of a page that should have a gallery on it?

  2. Would you mind if I emptied your blog and tried the import again?

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  robpacker · Member · Mar 10, 2012 at 11:14 am

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  Hi,

  1. Try A Day in the Country from March 4 (http://robpacker.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/a-day-in-the-country/)

  2. Sure. Go ahead! I did try to empty it and re-import but it didn’t work.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 10, 2012 at 9:09 pm

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  The gallery seems to be appearing just fine at http://robpacker.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/a-day-in-the-country/

  Are you still having trouble?

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  robpacker · Member · Mar 11, 2012 at 12:43 am

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  Hi,
  That’s the original blog. The new blog (nomadicpermanence.wordpress.com) doesn’t have any blogs at present: I deleted the ones that I imported.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 11, 2012 at 10:38 pm

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  Ah, ok. Would you please try the import again, then give us links to posts that should have galleries on the original vs. posts that don’t on the imported blog?