Manually Moving Local Sites to work on Fresh MacOS

  • jm4jc

    (@jm4jc)


    5 months ago

    My Hard drive crashed but was able to recover my data. I have Local Sites folder that contains all the files for the WordPress sites. Local does not pick up sites adding them to a new Local site Folder after the fresh OS installation. What can i do to have Local pick up my sites or have WordPress pick up my wp-content files so that i do not have to rebuild the current website i was working on again. Please help!

    I have tried to overwrite wp-content folder with the fresh wp-content installation folder and the wp-config.php file. Still if i launch the site, The WordPress dashboard is like a new site’s dashboard. It only recognizes the Plugins, but no media, theme and changes brought to it.

    Any help will be much appreciated!!

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  • ivangneiding

    (@ivangneiding)

    Unfortunatelly just copying files won’t bring your site back. All texts, general contents, configurations and everything else is saved on the database. You have to export database from old website and import it to the new website. So, you have to find a way to reach your old databases or you won’t be able to restore the website.

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