I never heard you say you tried the first thing Ben Turner suggested. I, too, found that Local can’t handle the backups made by UpdraftPlus. BUT I started with a fresh, vanilla site; installed and activated the UpdraftPlus plugin; uploaded the 4+1 backup files UpdraftPlus made from my live site (.zips of uploads, themes, plugins, other, plus a .gz of the database) into the UP pane “Backup/Restore” (drag-and-drop into target block or click “Upload backup files”), then selected them all and clicked “Restore” . . . Voila! I had the site working in Local. Of course, I had to login again to the WP dashboard (using the credentials from my administrator account from the live site).
I’m so glad to have found this thread because I’ve been using UpdraftPlus on a lot of sites and was always stymied when trying to get them into Local. But this worked just fine for me.
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