'Sorry, there has been an error. This does not appear to be a WXR file, missing/invalid WXR ver

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    johilder1968 · Member ·

    I backed up my site (www.johilder.com), then updated to a new version of WordPress (4.7), then attempted to upload/restore my backup via the importer, but it gives me this error message:
    ‘Sorry, there has been an error.
    This does not appear to be a WXR file, missing/invalid WXR version number’
    I have tried everything, and I mean everything, including switching hosts, to try and restore my website, to no avail.
    I cannot even work out how to manually restore the backup via ftp, and the host providers are no help as they say it’s a WordPress issue.
    Please assist. Thanks.
    JO

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

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    johilder1968 · Member ·

    Stuff I’ve tried.
    Plugins. Haven’t found one that’ll work.
    Tutorials on adding txt to make wordpress read it as an wxr file.
    Zipping it.
    Etc etc etc.

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