Export not working on Multisite

  • Not sure if this is a multisite problem or not. When I use the export tool (export all) I get a file of approx. 70% of my posts. I am assuming this is something to do with my internet provider.

    When I use the filter options to try to make the xml file smaller I get nothing back but a 3kb file everytime even if i make the date range practically the same size as the ‘all’ export.

    Any help would be appreciated

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Turn off all the plugins on the site and switch to Twenty Fourteen. See if that works.

    You make be running out of memory, though, which is a server problem, so check your logs.

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    (@leighflo)

    Dear Ipstenu
    Thank so much that worked.

    Now can you explain to me what happens when you fetch all the media files on Import from your other site. How does it get them and place them in your new uploads location and in the media file? How is it doing this? What are the instructions in the xml file that directs this process? Do the image files need to be somewhere in particular for this to happen correctly like at the root of your new domain or can they be in any location. For example is it done via the web. Sorry for my ignorance i just can’t understand exactly what this process is doing? How does it fetch?

    When I did the upload this way i think it just failed as nothing seemed to happened – i didn’t know if it was working or not. But after an hour the posts where there and one directory seemed to be created in my uploads file with one file in it. I have about 300 posts but about 8000 images. I am just sitting watching the screen without any idea if it is doing it or not.

    I also tried just FTPing the images to the uploads folder (and importing without media) which seems to work ok (as long as I change the image paths in wp-posts to the new domain). But then I can’t see the images in the Media File. Can you suggest anything.

    Anything you can suggest would be appreciated.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Now can you explain to me what happens when you fetch all the media files on Import from your other site.

    It’s stupid simple. Every time it loads a new page from the XML file, it checks for attachments and uploads them by reaching to origin server and copying them via HTTP. Tthat is – media attached to the page – which means if you go to the Media Library, it has something listed for a page.

    I have about 300 posts but about 8000 images. I am just sitting watching the screen without any idea if it is doing it or not.

    That’s gonna suck, yeah. And FTPing them won’t make them show in media uploader :/

    The other option would be a Database Copy, but thats really a mess with Mulltisite.

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