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Hi,

I was importing a site but it was stucked, so I have closed Local.
When I open it, all sites seems lost and it is saying “looks like you have’nt creates a site yet”.
Files are intact but Local can’t display the sites in dashboard.
What should be done?

Thanks,

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See the “Restoring From Only Local Site files” section for how to re-import your sites

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I have tried that…
Some sites can be restored by image problems.
Some sites throwed an error with sql.
Some sites throwed Enoent error.

I dont know what to do. It is very strange that “Local” cannot display the sites there was no change.

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It is weird that no one can comment on this.
Does anyone there thinks that local should scan and find the related sites?
It looks like a major collapse for a digital product.

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It is weird that no one is replying for 5 days.
This product, “Local”, is on its own? Is it a loose end?
No team, person, owner behind it?

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It seems “Local” is not owned by anyone.

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Local is owned by WP Engine, and there is a WPE moderator but I’m not sure who that is.

This is a community support group and we all have day jobs.

What I gather from your problem statement is that you have a botched site import and local never finished setting up the site it was importing.

A couple of thoughts;

  • Have you setup a new site without importing to confirm that your installation of Local is working?

  • Where/what are you importing from?

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Ah thank you Mikel.
Yes, this is a community forum but in past, I have seen Local Community Managers replied to posts. I thought they were appointed by Local. Maybe that was a mistake.

  1. Setup new site is working.
  2. I was importing a zip file and Local was stucked. Then I have restarted Local, when I reopened it, it said “Looks like you haven’t created any sites yet”, but the files of the sites I have created was there, intact. I tried zip them and import. Some of them worked, some of them throwed error.

That’s the actual case, right now.

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Break down import zip to simplest components.

wp-content folder and mysql database. Zip those 2 together and drop on Local to import. Making this as simple as possible without any extraneous folders, etc has always worked for me.

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Thank you @afragen.
I have tried one site with a method as you mentioned, it throwed the same error:

“Uh-oh! Unable to import site.
Local was unable to import following SQL files:”

No file listed actually.

Thank you so far.
I guess I will stop using Local. It is not trustable.

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That error would indicate that you didn’t include the .sql file in your zip.

Would you care to share the files or zip you used?

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Thank you @afragen, if it is time consuming for you we can stop this conversation.

There is only one file in mysql folder in every single I have created on Local which is called my.cnf.bhs
So, I have zipped wp-content and this file together.
I cannot upload the zip file of it because of the upload limit, that’s why I am adding sql file zipped.

Thanks,
my.cnf.zip (524 Bytes)

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@Volkan my.cnf.hbs is not the database file. You will find the database file in the /app/sql/local.sql inside of each site’s app/ folder. It’s at the same level as app/public/.

Local should automatically create this file as a backup each time you stop your site.

The actual database files are in the Local/run/<hash> folder for each site. On my Mac this is in the ~/Library/Local/run/...

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Yes, I know that was not an sql file but I thought Local is using this file as sql file.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I will try with the real database file now.

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@afragen, thank you again.

I will stop trying to re-create the sites that were existing on Local - anytime soon.
It became such a time spending effort for me and you. I decided to communicate with my clients and ask for the access to the actual site. Then I will update changes from scratch that I have performed earlier on Local.

the SQL folder is populated whenever sites are Stopped or Restarted

Eww! I didn’t know that. And I have never seen sql folder in app folder. Never.
Until I start & stop the site and check the folder now. Yes indeed, a folder called sql popped up.

Well, I copied the sites to new location when Local said “you haven’t created any sites yet”.
I am checking now and none have sql folder in app folder.
And, I have scanned entire disk for sql files, none found (only except the ones I created after Local crushed).

I am a Win 10 user but I really dont know where Local/run folder.
Sorry if this looks stupid but I am really surprised with the sql folder populated in app folder.

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