Earlier this year, I had a live WordPress lifestyle site that wasn't generating much traffic. My wife became a certified life coach, so we decided to change the site to focus on her new business. I used the WordPress Export tool to export the old site as an XML backup file. I installed MAMP on my MBP, set up a local WordPress site, and imported the lifestyle site using the WordPress Import tool. Once I had my wife's live site configured, I exported it as a backup and imported it to my local site so that my local site had all the old content and all the new content. The idea was that I could experiment with different things and apply the "keepers" to the live site. I also plan to use the blog posts on a future website of my own
A couple weeks ago, my MBP started acting flaky. Since I keep my data files in the cloud and on an external drive, I decided to do a clean installation of Mojave and of my apps. Since my local MAMP site was on the MBP's system drive, I first exported it using the method that had worked twice previously. Unfortunately, when I created a new MAMP WordPress Installation and imported my backed-up site, none of my images would import. The installer gave a "failed" message for each image it tried to import. I don't understand what went wrong. All the text for the blog posts and pages imported. I have all the original images saved elsewhere, but it would take hours to add them back to where they need to go.
I also have a backup of the entire folder structure of the site I exported. I tried renaming the folder to that of my newly created MAMP WordPress site. As I expected, it didn't work, because the mySQL database doesn't match. Is there a way to use that folder structure, or am I just out of luck?
A couple weeks ago, my MBP started acting flaky. Since I keep my data files in the cloud and on an external drive, I decided to do a clean installation of Mojave and of my apps. Since my local MAMP site was on the MBP's system drive, I first exported it using the method that had worked twice previously. Unfortunately, when I created a new MAMP WordPress Installation and imported my backed-up site, none of my images would import. The installer gave a "failed" message for each image it tried to import. I don't understand what went wrong. All the text for the blog posts and pages imported. I have all the original images saved elsewhere, but it would take hours to add them back to where they need to go.
I also have a backup of the entire folder structure of the site I exported. I tried renaming the folder to that of my newly created MAMP WordPress site. As I expected, it didn't work, because the mySQL database doesn't match. Is there a way to use that folder structure, or am I just out of luck?
