Migrating images/assets from Moveable type to Word Press.

kaushikngs · Member · Sep 13, 2012 at 2:33 pm
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I was able to migrate blog posts and comments but not images. How to migrate images from Moveable type to Word press and update the image src in the blog post to point to the migrated location.
Blog url: http://kaushikmahendravadi.wordpress.com/

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timethief · Member · Sep 13, 2012 at 3:28 pm
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staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 17, 2012 at 5:23 am
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Can you give me a link to a post where images were not correctly imported?
kaushikngs · Member · Sep 17, 2012 at 12:33 pm
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Here you go – http://kaushikmahendravadi.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/coming_soon_traveler_thursday/
staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 17, 2012 at 8:27 pm
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Ok, I see the images there, and they are referencing the source from elsewhere.

Is http://blog.mywonderfulworld.org/ the blog you imported from?
kaushikngs · Member · Sep 18, 2012 at 11:43 am
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Yes, that is the blog that I imported the posts from.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 18, 2012 at 6:40 pm
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Ok, one thing that we can try to fix this would be to try the import again, but in order to do that, we’ll need to empty the WordPress.com blog.

Did you only have imported posts on the WordPress.com blog?
kaushikngs · Member · Sep 18, 2012 at 7:08 pm
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We can do that. I am just testing out WordPress and I only have imported blog entries. We can go ahead empty the WordPress.com blog.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 18, 2012 at 7:24 pm
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I have emptied the blog as requested. Please feel free to try again and let us know how it goes.
kaushikngs · Member · Sep 18, 2012 at 7:26 pm
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I still the blog posts in kaushikmahendravadi.wordpress.com.
kaushikngs · Member · Sep 18, 2012 at 7:29 pm
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Sorry, i was trying to say – I still see all of the blog posts in kaushikmahendravadi.wordpress.com.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 18, 2012 at 7:35 pm
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Sorry about that, the process was delayed for some odd reason. It’s clear now.
kaushikngs · Member · Sep 19, 2012 at 12:42 pm
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I tired importing blog posts from the same movable type export file that I used but I did not even get a response from WordPress.com saying the import ran successfully. I have tried three times already. Any suggestions? When I upload the life, i do get asked how do i want to map the authors. So, wordpress is definitely reading the file.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 19, 2012 at 6:43 pm
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It can take up to 24 hours for the import to complete and for you to receive the email confirmation.

Judging by the time I cleared your blog, it hasn’t been 24 hours yet.
kaushikngs · Member · Sep 20, 2012 at 11:51 am
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Nothing yet, i am going to give it one more try.
kaushikngs · Member · Sep 21, 2012 at 3:02 pm
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I tried importing once a day for last three days. I get the import is successful email ( it went to my junk mail that’s why is my earlier post i said i did not get the email) but I don’t see any of my blog posts.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 21, 2012 at 8:33 pm
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How big is the Movable Type export file?
kaushikngs · Member · Sep 24, 2012 at 12:51 pm
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The file size is 8.9 MB.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Sep 24, 2012 at 5:52 pm
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Ok, that should definitely work. I have reset your importer again. Would you please try one more time?
kaushikngs · Member · Sep 24, 2012 at 5:56 pm
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I just initiated upload.. Hopefully this is it. Do you get error logs for this, if so won’t it tell you the issue. If not, how do you ever know what went wrong.

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