Error importing a website to LocalWP: Please try again with a compatible zip file

[Nick-B]

Hey @MAG

There could still be something blocking this on your machine, or it might be a conflict with the DB itself.

You could try changing your command to see if this works:

Unable to access database

Hey Everyone – We’ve been zeroing in on why this is happening and the general issue is that the wp db subcommands use the --no-defaults param which blocks out the custom MySQL config we provide. There is a solution but we ran into major issues when trying to implement it on Windows so we’re still working on a way to implement this in a way that works across the various environments. In terms of a workaround, as @kristarella mentioned, you should be able to do some of the basic things wit…

Do you know if the database for this site is extraordinarily large? Or does it have any tables with millions of rows or anything like that?

If the DB is small and you’re still striking out it could mean that your Firewall or some other application is still blocking the import.