# Manual export instead of built in function **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [April 5, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/manual-export-instead-of-built-in-function/1181 "2017-04-05T13:10:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cfabrice](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/cfabrice/32/4643_2.png) [@cfabrice](https://community.localwp.com/u/cfabrice)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/manual-export-instead-of-built-in-function/1181/1 "2017-04-05T13:10:52Z")
Hello, Is there a way to manually export a site: most of the sites I tried to export, I got an error (notification says unable to dump “could not dump database from XXXX”. The logs stops with : “mydumper process complete” and then “Segmentation fault”… Quite systematic !!! And I’d like to move those local sites on a new macbook. could I copy the root folder of the site and paste it in the new machine and arrange something with a fake local-site.json made by hand ? I’ve seen something in the forum regarding this… but my case is different: I the app/sql folder, there is just one file called metadata.partial that only contains “Started dump at …” And another question: Am I alone with these exports pbl ? Are you working on it for the next release and when weill be that next release (for mac)? Thank you, Fabrice ---
**Author:** ![cfabrice](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/cfabrice/32/4643_2.png) [@cfabrice](https://community.localwp.com/u/cfabrice)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/manual-export-instead-of-built-in-function/1181/2 "2017-04-05T13:18:10Z")
I’m wondering if this has to do with the fact that I often use wp all in one migration plugin for importing whole sites of part of sites (just the database for example)… ---
**Author:** ![clay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/clay/32/8248_2.png) [@clay](https://community.localwp.com/u/clay)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/manual-export-instead-of-built-in-function/1181/3 "2017-04-11T15:20:25Z")
Hi Fabrice, Interesting! Have you tried exporting the database using Adminer or Sequel Pro? ---
**Author:** ![flabernardez](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/flabernardez/32/4652_2.png) [@flabernardez](https://community.localwp.com/u/flabernardez)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/manual-export-instead-of-built-in-function/1181/4 "2017-04-11T22:33:21Z")
Hi! I have the same issue. And even more: I broke my virtual machine and I can not enter to adminer o sequel admin. I have several installations, but the metadata.partial only appears in one of them, and I need to rescue the database. Thank you very much! ---
**Author:** ![cfabrice](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/cfabrice/32/4643_2.png) [@cfabrice](https://community.localwp.com/u/cfabrice)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/manual-export-instead-of-built-in-function/1181/5 "2017-04-12T07:46:45Z")
Yes I can export with adminer (just tried now)… So is there a fastest way than creating an empty wordpress instance, replacing the files and then importing the DB ? How come there is this “Segmentation fault” ? Should I put my export file in the app/sql folder and rename it in some ways ? Thank you. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/manual-export-instead-of-built-in-function/1181/6 "2020-08-25T18:31:43Z")