hello, I have been trying to get support for the last couple of days and have not gotten any response. I have written in a couple of posts relating to my issue because I have tried everything that has been suggested but its not working. Here is my issue: [image] Re-importing a site …

Hi, I have exactly the same problem. I have tried: How can I restore a site from a Local site folder? but I can’t get any of these solutions to work. In Local I rename files as suggested (e.g. mysite-backup), but then I can’t create a new site called mysite. I get the message: mysite is taken by …

@Rosie , [image] Rosie: I have exactly the same problem. I have tried: How can I restore a site from a Local site folder? but I can’t get any of these solutions to work. In Local I rename files as suggested (e.g. mysite-backup), but then I can’t create a new site called mysite. I get the messa…

@jps , Before the myloader step, can you please try the following? Go to the new site in Local that you created that you’ll be importing into Click on “Database” Click on “Adminer” Remove/drop all of the tables that you see Then, you can retry the import steps.

thank you for your reply @clay but I resorted to contacting support directly via email ticket because no one was replying and was helped by lovely Sarah. She explained to me how to create one database file so I can use the drag and drop method of importing a site; I want to post this because I could…

@jps , Awesome, very glad to hear! Thanks for sharing Sarah’s tip!

ok @clay , I did what you said about dropping the tables and then used the myloader command and it worked! thank you!

Thanks for taking the time to post this. I have the steps you outline, but it doesn’t work for me; I get the message attached [50]

Hello Clay and thanks for the response. I have tried al,of these steps (including jps) and can’t get it to work. The last time I the message attached, it proceeded to take me to the Wordpress set up screen. This set up my site, but without any of the content. [22]

This seems to be the solution I need. I have a bunch of sql files but need to get them all into one like you did but for PC not mac. Anybody know how on pc?

Cannot restore my website after having to move from one computer to another

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clay August 31, 2017, 8:59pm 3

@Rosie,

Please try deleting the site from Local (answer no when you’re asked to move the files to the Trash). Then, retry the steps where you got stuck last time.

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