Re-Import attachments into media library after migrating

  • I am in the process of moving a site from WordPress.com to a self hosted WordPress site. But I’m having trouble exporting from WordPress.com and then importing the posts and image attachments afterwards.

    My problem is that even if I check the box to Download and Import Attachments, I get a lot of media already exists or failed error messages, and not every image makes it over. I have about 1000 images, and only get about half of them after importing.

    So I’ve given up on using the importer to download and import attachments. Instead I’ve used DownThemAll to download all of the images, then uploaded them to the new server, maintaining the correct directory structure. I also made sure to update the exported XML file to the new URL paths. And now my dilemma is how do I get all of these images back into the Media library.

    Essentially I’ve already done the job of downloading the image attachments that the importer would do. Now I just want them to show up in the media library, and if possible, attached to the correct posts.

    Is there any way to do this? Or is there a way to have the importer skip downloading the images, and simply attach them, or something like that?

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  • @wzinet

    I can’t comment about the .mov files, my videos were in a different format. But I believe the video reference tutorial you’re looking for is near the beginning of this thread. The tutorial was written by @chezpaul, check this page, and look about 1/2 way down the page. Or search for the reference to GPP Slideshow.

    @wzinet, the importer doesn’t do anything to filter out .mov files, so it’s hard to say what’s going on here. Maybe check that your site settings aren’t preventing .mov files from being uploaded?

    Many thanks for the help.

    The problem was that I’d clearly run the importer script before following the instructions earlier, then the script was not reprocessing these files.

    Once I’d hacked the script to run the media-importer on the already imported files, then this all works just perfectly.

    Many thanks.

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