Hi, not I was referring to this link https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/ for installing a copy of WP locally using xampp. It it quite simple and works very well for all functions I can try except for importing this file. And yes, the MT export file contains what it should and it does import fine on a webhost based copy of WP. Has anyone else run into this problem while running a local copy on Windows and found a solution? I can even “upload” images and such when making test posts, so I know the settings are correct. For some reason the tmpfile variable that holds the newly uploaded export file remains empty. Thanks for any help.