# Lost local website after accidently pulling from Flywheel

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/lost-local-website-after-accidently-pulling-from-flywheel/29335>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** local-connect-fw\
**Created:** [December 15, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/lost-local-website-after-accidently-pulling-from-flywheel/29335 "2021-12-15T18:41:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![radhattermarketing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@radhattermarketing](https://community.localwp.com/u/radhattermarketing)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/lost-local-website-after-accidently-pulling-from-flywheel/29335/1 "2021-12-15T18:41:12Z")

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### Issue Summary

I accidentally “pulled from Flywheel” into Local, overriding my complete design on a new website. I can’t access the local website now that I have been working on because it was overrose with the website from Flywheel. How do I get it back? Please help!

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**Author:** ![ben.turner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/ben.turner/32/5366_2.png) [@ben.turner](https://community.localwp.com/u/ben.turner)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/lost-local-website-after-accidently-pulling-from-flywheel/29335/2 "2021-12-15T19:10:51Z")

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It’s possible that the Local changes have been lost – When Pulling a site down Local overwrites the DB if you check the “Include Database” option.

One thing you might try is leaving Local open and navigating to the site’s folder. There might be a file called `local.sql` within the `~/Local Sites/sitename/app/sql/` folder. This file would be an export of the database whenever the site was last stopped cleanly.

Using that sql file, you can try restoring the site using the site files by following the steps outlined in the “Restoring From Only Local Site files” section of this help doc:

- [https://localwp.com/help-docs/how-to-import-a-wordpress-site-into-local/](https://localwp.com/help-docs/how-to-import-a-wordpress-site-into-local/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://community.localwp.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/lost-local-website-after-accidently-pulling-from-flywheel/29335/3 "2022-03-15T19:11:39Z")

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