# Site Importing Error

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/site-importing-error/13538>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 10, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/site-importing-error/13538 "2019-08-10T17:07:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![PaulDeucher](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/pauldeucher/32/8073_2.png) [@PaulDeucher](https://community.localwp.com/u/PaulDeucher)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/site-importing-error/13538/1 "2019-08-10T17:07:55Z")

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Can’t find any help for this anywhere, maybe you guys could help.  
I put 4 month of work on this site, after my computer crashed 2 weeks ago I could only get back the folders and files Local By Flywheel was using at the time of the crash. You know, those files that were saved on my harddrive.

 ![Anteckning%202019-08-10%2019058](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/lwpforums/original/2X/8/888af047ba4a05ec198d38b081edb23b2282aa13.png)  
When I try to import that to a new site it just gives this message:  
 ![Anteckning%202019-08-10%20174742](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/lwpforums/original/2X/8/8f932e6920e46f1279826f6f8d92dd010d3ef51b.png)  
["Error Importing Site.  
Sorry! We couldn’t figure out what to do with the import file provided. Please extract it manually” ]

Have anyone had the same problem and could fix it? 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:** [August 27, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/site-importing-error/13538/2 "2019-08-27T17:15:11Z")

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Hey @PaulDeucher –

That error means that Local didn’t know how to handle the import and is usually due to not using a `zip` of the site.

You should be able to create a `zip` of the site folder and then drag and drop that onto Local for it to import.

You might take a closer look at the steps outlined in the “Restoring From Only Local Site files” section of this help doc:

- [How to Import a WordPress Site into Local](https://getflywheel.com/wordpress-support/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:** [August 25, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/site-importing-error/13538/3 "2020-08-25T18:37:13Z")

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