My Mac crashed and I lost everything on.

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    jsharp9744 · Member ·

    How do I recover my website that I have been building on MAMP? any help would be incredibly appreciated.
    Regards, James

    WP.com: Yes
    Correct account: Yes

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    jsharp9744 · Member ·

    Hi, I am trying to install Divi into a new install of WordPress but it tells me to upgrade, I already had, why cant I do it now??

    WP.com: Yes
    Correct account: Yes

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hello James,

    How do I recover my website that I have been building on MAMP?

    If you’ve been developing a site locally using MAMP, the only place that site’s files exist is on your hard drive. So unless you’re using Time Machine, iCloud, or some other service to back up everything on your hard drive, if those files are deleted from your hard drive, they’re gone. You can try looking for them in Trash, perhaps, but if they’re not there either, then there’s no way to get them back.

    By the way, the forum you’re posting to now is for the hosting provider, WordPress.com. You would have been using the open source version or WordPress, made by the community on WordPress.org, in MAMP, and they have a dedicated forum over there to help with issues related to local WordPress installations at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs/

    I am trying to install Divi into a new install of WordPress but it tells me to upgrade, I already had, why cant I do it now??

    Are you trying to install Divi on http://jsharp9744.wordpress.com/? If so, that requires our Business plan – installing any third party theme or plugin on sites hosted on WordPress.com requires our Business Plan.

    But as WordPress.com, and the open source software you were working with in MAMP are two completely separate and different things, I suspect installing Divi on the new WordPress.com site you created is perhaps not what you actually want to do :)

    Instead, if your local site is definitely not there any more, you’ll want to spin up a new site in MAMP.

    (By the way, you should consider Local by Flywheel as well. Like MAMP it’s free, but unlike MAMP it lets you spin up multiple WordPress installations that you can easily switch between with just a couple of clicks.)

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    jsharp9744 · Member ·

    Hi Kokkieh, thank you for the fast response, its greatly appreciated.
    I was not aware there was a wordpress.com and wordpress.org, very confusing. I’m sure that wordpress.com is the one I subscribed to back in 2019, is there a way to find out what my plan was that I paid for?
    I found the backups for the wordpress site that I was creating using backdraft, would they be of use?
    Thanks again for the rapid reply,
    Regards, James

  • staff-mckluskey · Staff ·

    I was not aware there was a wordpress.com and wordpress.org, very confusing.

    Yeah, we see this confusion a lot here. Let me explain.
    We, WordPress.com, are a cloud-based platform where we manage WordPress sites, whereas WordPress.org is stand-alone software that you can download and self-host with any other hosting.

    You can find more details about WordPress.com and WordPress.org on this support page:

    https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/.

    I’m sure that wordpress.com is the one I subscribed to back in 2019, is there a way to find out what my plan was that I paid for?

    On WordPress.com, we don’t delete sites unless the owner does it from their account. So, if your site was hosted with us, you’d just need to access your account. Do you know the address of the site you created back then?

    You can also look for the email we sent out after purchasing a plan; you’d also get information from there.

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