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oh, govpatel, thanks! we posted simulaneously.

Yes, that’s how I’ll have to recreate my widgets, but I would still need the content from the widgets such as text/html. But I got it now from my old install.

got the plugins, now I’ll go activate them. Thanks!

Hmmm, but I did do a database backup as well. The export/import feature just seemed easy. (and the documentation didn’t say that I would lose anything)

So is it too late to use the the database backup? And would that involve going into the sql database? (I’m not very good at that!)

I just remembered I still have my blog running on the old host in the blog folder, so at least I can go back and forth and look at it to recreate all my customization.

Guess I’m all set then, thanks for your help Samuel!
– Emma

Yes, thank you, the first/main problem is fixed. I needed to both delete the home.html and ADD my param.xml file, now I can see my blog.

BUT I really thought I would get my whole theme back with all the customizations and widget items back with the export or backup or something. I have a clone of the whole FTP folder on my desktop, can I get it back from there?

I moved over the theme folder, but that’s still generic, no widgets.
Thanks again!

is there a way to get my theme and plugins back with a backup file?

And I think you’re right about the other thing, there’s a home.html I’m going to go try to delete.
Thanks for your quick response!

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks!

Thank you for that link, it is somewhat helpful, but makes me think that I can’t do what I want. It all assumes that you have the same thing for localhost and I want to use my URL in the permalink, not the localhost.

I wonder if there is some kind of tricky work around.

Thanks, but I’ve read that and I don’t know what the file is to choose to import.

One last time, I want to thank you all for all your help.

In the end I decided to switch hosts and am currently working on installing WordPress on the new host and importing my blog. But that’s a whole different story and hopefully it will be a smooth one.

I’m glad this forum is here and so helpful. Thanks again! – Emma

I can see the owner of each file and directory with get info, but I don’t know what to do with that information. I’ve said this before, the permissions are set to 775 and there are strings of numbers for the owner and group. But I don’t know what to do with those numbers or how to find out what they should be.

I don’t know what I should do at this point. Should I reinstall WordPress again? Get a new host? Any suggestions?

Well, I don’t know. I guess I could look into it. Then I’ll have to move it again, ugh!

Hi again my trusty helpers, I have a new piece of information for this puzzle…I can’t post anything!! I tried to write a quick “technical difficulties, please stay tuned” message without and images and I can’t post at all. I get the edit screen, but then if I click save draft or publish, it takes me back to the post list and my draft is just gone. It doesn’t publish or save what I just wrote.

Would it be ok if I post this question anew in the troubleshooting forum? Does that bring any new ideas to light for you?
THANKS!!

Henkholland, I tried a PC today and no luck there either. I’m at my wits too! It’s broken!!

Oh, I did that already. I got the phpinfo screen, but couldn’t find the user/group or anything that looked right.

Hi apljdi, I’m glad you’re still with me, but I don’t know the answer to your question. It should be me as I am the one who uploaded it. But I uploaded it via an FTP client and I’m logging into WordPress via the admin there, so they’re not really the same thing. Do you know how I would find that out or fix it?? (Yahoo couldn’t help!)

Nope, it’s not that. I have tried to upload very small images. 30KB doesn’t even work. I did add your memory limit increase fix, too.

Thanks for the irfanview suggestion, but I just checked it out and it’s not available for Macs. Anyway, I have photoshop and can optimize my images there. I’m only sometimes lazy and upload them straight out of iPhoto.