# Help to uninstall and reinstall local - retain existing local sites **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [January 29, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/help-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-local-retain-existing-local-sites/10768 "2019-01-29T16:31:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![flycrum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/flycrum/32/5862_2.png) [@flycrum](https://community.localwp.com/u/flycrum)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/help-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-local-retain-existing-local-sites/10768/2 "2019-01-30T23:43:13Z")
Hello again @quizzical! That’s an excellent question. Luckily, we have a tutorial on how to do just that. I’ll include the link below, but basically you’ll need zip up each site found in your `Local Sites` directory and put them somewhere safe. After that, you can go ahead and uninstall and reinstall Local and then import them back in one by one. With that said, I would encourage you to try what I mentioned in your [other post](https://local.getflywheel.com/community/t/error-setting-up-host-only-network-on-machine-start/10745) first, and hopefully you don’t have to do these extra steps. Here’s the [link](https://getflywheel.com/wordpress-support/how-to-import-a-wordpress-site-into-local/#restore-local-site-from-site-files) on how to restore Local sites. Let me know how it goes. Chris --- _[View the full topic](https://community.localwp.com/t/help-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-local-retain-existing-local-sites/10768)._