Importing my blog from Posterous didn't work in 24 hours

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    jenia · Member ·

    Hi Aaron,

    Thanks for getting in touch.

    1. The new importer still doesn’t seem to pull in the highest resolution images.

    Unfortunately, this is still in the Posterous court, since the import file refers to the scaled images. We’ve also reached out to them, but I don’t have any updates on this.

    2. The in-line images seem to be of lower quality than before.

    Could you please give me links to specific example posts so that I can take a look? Something to keep in mind is that in posts, images are adjusted to fit the width of the theme. Once you click through to the image attachment page, you’ll see the file sized as uploaded.

    3. Any characters that are Hawaiian, Japanese, or even some apostrophes, now are “???”. This last issue appears to be caused by Posterous, not WordPress. But I presume this is impacting everyone WordPress is trying to pull from Posterous. I put in a support request with them, but as you know, they have no resources. Maybe you have a better solution or someone you can ping there?

    We are aware of the corruption issue with some character sets (the characters seem to “break” at the point of a backup file generation) and reached out to Posterous. I will let you know as soon as we have any updates about this, thanks for your patience!

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    s4xton · Member ·

    Thanks for the answers on 1 and 3.

    For 2, I did some testing, and let’s table it. I can’t prove what I’m saying. :)

    For 1 and 3, this is an idea:

    https://twitter.com/bureado/status/304421238057607168

    In other words, create your own XML file based off all the individual post XML files. Something to explore? Maybe this would be useful for your import tools? What do you think? Should I try it?

    -Aaron

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    jenia · Member ·

    Hi Aaron, I have no idea if this is going to work :D You can always try and see what happens, and then empty the site again.

  • kathrynwp · Staff ·

    Posterous has let us know that the issue with accented and other non-English characters should now be fixed. You’ll need to re-download your Posterous export file and try the import again.

    Just let us know if you’d like us to empty out your WordPress.com site before you do. This will delete all pages, posts, comments, images and other uploaded files, as well as categories and tags. It’s not reversible.

    Otherwise, you can empty your site manually.

    Please let us know if you need any help.

  • kathrynwp · Staff ·

    Hi there – I wanted to check in to see if you still needed any help with this. After their initial fix for accented characters didn’t work consistently, Posterous made another tweak to their exporter over the weekend. You would need to generate a new export from your Posterous site. We suggest you have a look at the file first to make sure the accented characters look OK. Just let me know if you have any trouble with the import into WordPress.com. Thanks!

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    s4xton · Member ·

    I’m trying with the new file and I’m getting this error when trying to import where I need to assign my posts to an existing user. This would normally be no problem but it’s asking me to do that for almost a thousand posts and the post previews look pretty screwed up. Not sure what I should do here…

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    s4xton · Member ·

    Example:

    Assign Authors

    To make it easier for you to edit and save the imported content, you may want to reassign the author of the imported item to an existing user of this site. For example, you may want to import all the entries as admins entries.

    Import author: ]]></dc:creator> <category domain=”tag” nicename=”hiptop”><![CDATA[hiptop]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category domain=”category” nicename=”uncategorized”><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid isPermaLink=”false”>http://s4xton.com/jason-collett-at-the-7th-st-entry-43606</guid&gt; <description></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class=’p_embed p_image_embed’><img alt=”20060322-014001-1″ height=”240″ src=”http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-09-17/ujwztypnokiwJEjpfJjEpmzevcxDvAeJglDohDasiskirmcidegfjAuxqczG/20060322-014001-1.jpg.scaled500.jpg” width=”320″ /><img alt=”20060322-014002-2″ height=”240″ src=”http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-09-17/pifBiBiddCsbhfawkGgBeJvgbcGroaBeJEoCrwAyvEuJnpaliJkuoixnyxdk/20060322-014002-2.jpg.scaled500.jpg” width=”320″ /></div></p>]]></content:encoded> <excerpt:encoded><![CDATA[]]></excerpt:encoded> <wp:post_date>Wed Mar 22 06:40:00 -0800 2006</wp:post_date> <wp:post_date_gmt>Wed Mar 22 06:40:00 -0800 2006</wp:post_date_gmt> <wp:comment_status>open</wp:comment_status> <wp:ping_status>open</wp:ping_status> <wp:post_id>67513088</wp:post_id> <wp:post_name>jason-collett-at-the-7th-st-entry-43606</wp:post_name> <wp:status>publish</wp:status> <wp:post_parent>0</wp:post_parent> <wp:menu_order>0</wp:menu_order> <wp:post_type>post</wp:post_type> <wp:post_password></wp:post_password> <wp:is_sticky>0</wp:is_sticky> </item><item> <title>Weekend in Des Moines</title> <link>http://s4xton.com/weekend-in-des-moines</link&gt; <pubDate>Mon Sep 17 15:54:53 -0700 2007</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[
    assign posts to an existing user:
    Import author: ]]></dc:creator> <category domain=”tag” nicename=”hiptop”><![CDATA[hiptop]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category domain=”category” nicename=”uncategorized”><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid isPermaLink=”false”>http://s4xton.com/phone-system-training</guid&gt; <description></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class=’p_embed p_image_embed’><img alt=”20061110-074804-1″ height=”240″ src=”http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-09-17/rGagpbkEEEIIJmjgujztjehcmDImHkkgxwchBueuejseGBiEldpxgrlrwbiD/20061110-074804-1.jpg.scaled500.jpg” width=”320″ /></div></p>]]></content:encoded> <excerpt:encoded><![CDATA[]]></excerpt:encoded> <wp:post_date>Thu Nov 09 16:48:00 -0800 2006</wp:post_date> <wp:post_date_gmt>Thu Nov 09 16:48:00 -0800 2006</wp:post_date_gmt> <wp:comment_status>open</wp:comment_status> <wp:ping_status>open</wp:ping_status> <wp:post_id>67516238</wp:post_id> <wp:post_name>phone-system-training</wp:post_name> <wp:status>publish</wp:status> <wp:post_parent>0</wp:post_parent> <wp:menu_order>0</wp:menu_order> <wp:post_type>post</wp:post_type> <wp:post_password></wp:post_password> <wp:is_sticky>0</wp:is_sticky> </item><item> <title>IWW “Solidarity With Starbucks Workers” Protest</title> <link>http://s4xton.com/iww-solidarity-with-starbucks-workers-protest</link&gt; <pubDate>Mon Sep 01 00:51:23 -0700 2008</pubDate> <dc:creator><![CDATA[
    assign posts to an existing user:

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    You’re seeing the error with all that HTML dump on the page in the Dashboard?

    Just to be sure, did you upload a fresh .xml export file from Posterous, and did you empty your site before-hand (including empty the Trash sub-section)?

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