Importing Movable Type Not working

Yo, anybody home?

Is this a problem that WordPress is thinking of doing anything about? I think it’s a rather severe one if they hope to get converts. Maybe they don’t.

I had the same problem in a Windows installation. What’s odd about it is that the program accesses the uploaded file correctly at least once before it fails (it displays your author names correctly, right?) but then the value returned by get_attached_file changes. You can work round it by putting the actual file name and path into line 400, like this:

$this->file = “C:\import.txt”;

HTH.
David

Hello???? Anybody out there? I find it hard to believe that WordPress can just leave this feature to be struggled with by their users. I know of at least one person it is absolutely the show stopper for keeping me from changing over (with the lesser problem of not implementing pingbacks/trackbacks the way it is accustomed to being used —ie trackback creator Six Apart—–the idea for me is to make it easy to track who is linking to you. If the “linking” person has to come look up a “Trackback URI” and enter that into their blog tool in a separate step, that defeats the purpose. At least give the option having the posting function auto-create the trackback , like MT does)

Much more important however, is this import problem. It simply breaks with all sorts of path problems, according to the errors thrown.

PLEASE PLEASE fix this!

From the earlier thread I see dlature has finally been able to upload his/her data by trying a fix that was suggested there a couple of weeks back. Good!

I wonder why it didn’t work for me when I had the identical symptoms. Anyway, I took this as a warning not to use WP under Windows and I shifted the blogs back to the Linux server where they grew up and where they are all playing happily again.

I want to import my Blurty plz.