Import of attachments fails

Unless you want to start again from scratch when you have the DNS changed to point to the new site, yes – you’ll have to re-upload them all manually.

Well, I gave up on importing the attachments. The import tool fails every time. I even tried the wordpress-import-extended plugin, and that failed as well. Since it depends on the wordpress-import plugin, I assume the problem is in it somewhere.

If I don’t check the box for attachments, the import works fine (but of course I don’t have the attachments.)

So I changed course and installed the wordpress-flash-uploader plugin, which is supposed to sync files already in the default location of wp-content/uploads/, but it fails as well.

So, how can I get these attachments reattached to their posts? Am I going to have to do this completely manually? Ugh.

I must have imported the theme unit test data a few dozen times and I’ve never had a problem importing attachments.

How does that help me? You may not have a problem, but I do. I’d like to resolve it, if that’s possible.

Do you get any messages when importing the theme unit test data? How long does the import take?

I don’t know what the theme unit test data is. Enlighten me.

It’s a standardised import file that you can download from Theme_Unit_Test. Testing with this would help to rule out (or confirm) issues in your own import file.

I got farther than I did with my blog, but it still failed to upload some attachments.

Import WordPress
Failed to import Media “HayseedRag–theDizzyTrio_vbr”
Failed to import Media “Hayseed Rag – The Dizzy Trio”

All done. Have fun!

Remember to update the passwords and roles of imported users

I’ve never gotten the All done part before.

Failed to import Media “HayseedRag–theDizzyTrio_vbr”
Failed to import Media “Hayseed Rag – The Dizzy Trio”

That’s fine,. Those particular attachments are no longer available. So, all in all, the import was successful.

What messages were you seeing previously?

If I checked the include attachments option, I got two attachments downloaded, and the rest failed. If I don’t check the attachments option, the import is successful (posts and users).

php.ini is set to 20MB, so it’s not a size problem. Perhaps I’m missing a php extension?

Do you get any messages with the attachment download failures? I doubt it’s a missing php extension. The most common causes are either a malformed export file (sometimes as the result of a plugin on the originating site) or access to the attachment is being blocked at the originating site.

No messages. The screen is blank. I’m exporting from a WordPress.com site with no plugins. I don’t know if WordPress.com blcks access to attachments. If they do, that would be profoundly stupid.

wordpress.com definitely don’t block access. How large is the exported file? How much memory is allocated to PHP?

It’s a bunch of files with varying sizes. The sizes are in bytes:

7502276 australiapleasepleasebecareful.wmv
236852298 trayvon-martin-sao-girl-interview.wav
3383125 3105-oops1.wmv
37412 6182012_64519_0.jpg
5498880 afghanistan.pps
5498880 afghanistan1.pps
89937 anniversary.jpg
7278 freedom_scale.png
6074718 socialsecurityreformact.wmv
4786176 thesearemycredentials.pps
747199 trayvon-martin-autopsy.pdf
385354 birth-certificate-long-form.pdf
8056 image.jpg
1519 image2.gif
37538 image3.jpg
50086 image4.jpg
38166 image5.gif
8196 image6.gif
13327 reagan1.jpeg
9452 reagan2.jpeg
4821159 HSFLGL-12-B-00003_Step_1_Technical.pdf
5828023 audio_interview_0227.mp3
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5558858 audio_interview_0229_2.mp3
20822727 audio_interview_0229_3.mp3
20822727 audio_interview_0229_31.mp3
24871092 audio_statement_0226_1.mp3
7417104 audio_statement_0226_2.mp3
28485 father_and_son.jpeg
2010956 george-zimmerman-treyvon-martin-911-call1.mp3
130567 initial_path_of_tm.jpg
123411 possible-path-for-tm.jpg
76398 serino31.pdf
36112 zimmerman_non-emergency_call.pdf
38553 zimmerman_non-emergency_call_annotated.pdf
38581 zimmerman_non-emergency_call_annotated1.pdf
38583 zimmerman_non-emergency_call_annotated2.pdf
39578 zimmerman_non-emergency_call_annotated5.pdf
34816 1961-2012non-farm_employment.xls
35328 1961-2012non-farm_employment1.xls
7863 blackandtan.jpg
9453959 crazygrandmacrazyphotos.wmv
13252 cropped-American-Eagle-150×150.jpg
10911 cropped-American-Eagle-300×62.jpg
93122 cropped-American-Eagle.jpg
1406 favicon.ico
1406 favicon1.ico
1406 favicon2.ico
69563 screenshot2010-09-29atwednesdayseptember292-00am.png
3352930 txantimedia.wordpress.2012-09-13.xml_.txt
3352930 txantimedia.wordpress.2012-09-13.xml_1.txt
3370312 txantimedia.wordpress.2012-09-15.xml_.txt

Php size limit is 20MB.

How large is the .xml export file? And the PHP allocation limit is quite different to the max_upload_size.