Why won't my images from my wordpress.com import to my new self hosted site?

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  ahotmama · Member · Oct 16, 2013 at 12:15 am

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  My content such as photos and uploads will not import to my new self hosted site. I was not able to get my “uploads” folder from my wordpress.com hosted site. I would really like to have those files so that I can import them to my new self hosted site and run a URL changer to keep everything on my site instead of hotlinking images from http://ahotmama.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/mocast.jpg

  Please let me know how we are able to complete this task be it a .zip file.

  Thank you!

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  kraftbj · Staff · Oct 16, 2013 at 3:31 pm

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  Howdy,

  How are you importing your posts into your new site? You can follow these instructions: http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org , which will produce an exported file that you can import into your new site.

  During the process of importing the posts, you can check the option to import the media as well, so any media attached to a post will be copied in.

  We typically don’t generate zip files of the media content, but if the above doesn’t work for you, I can see what we can do.

  Thanks!