Transferring images from WordPress.com to self hosted site.

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  mikejbutcher · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 10:44 am

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  Hi, I have recently moved my site from wordpress.com to a self hosted site. I have exported/imported my content and selected to download images when prompted. Some of my images transferred over but not all. I have 800 posts missing images.

  I have set my permalink setting on my new site to match the old site. I attempted to you Blue Velvet plugin to move the images but I get an error.

  I have set my old wordpress site to private and to redirect to the new address.

  My old site – http://www.twinstickgaming.wordpress.com
  My new site – http://twinstickgaming.com

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 10:58 am

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Jul 21, 2014 at 11:17 pm

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  Hi there,

  The image transfer will not work when your WordPress.com site is set to private. Can you try setting it to public and attempt the export/import again? Files that have already been imported should not be duplicated. However, files that have not been imported should be brought over.

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  mikejbutcher · Member · Jul 22, 2014 at 9:49 am

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  After I set my old wordpress site to public would I use the Blue Velvet plugin or importing the content again? I’ve attempted to import content before and I just get errors. Could that be because the old site is set to private?

  Sorry for the extra questions, I’ve borked the site up once this week and my staff are getting angry.

  Thanks

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Jul 22, 2014 at 6:40 pm

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  Hi there,

  The errors that read “This file already exists” are duplicate file warnings. But, it shouldn’t duplicate the files that have already been imported. If you set the site to public and re-impor the blog, it should bring over the files that were not already imported. Can you give that a try?

  Another possible explanation is a timeout on the hosting side. You have quite a few image files. Your host may just be timing out when you try to import all of the images.