Pete

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you PhiLho. I will link your post above in the readme file with the next plugin update so other users have easy access to it. And thanks for the rating as well, really appreciate it!

Thanks!

Thanks for your rating & feedback, I really appreciate it.

Cheers,
Pete

Thank you!

Hi,

sorry to hear that it is “useless” for you. If this had been an issue with the plugin itself, we could have resolved this easily via support. ??

Thank you ??

Thanks, glad it helped you ??

3.9 will work ??

Hi, thanks for the rating/review. I added your idea to https://github.com/thehelvetian/wp-attachment-export/issues/2. Not sure if I will ever implement it but hey, ya never know. ??

Cheers, Pete

Hi Joyce,

this message comes from the ‘WordPress Importer’ plugin and is displayed when the importer cannot find/access the uploaded file. I suspect a folder/file permission issue in the wp-content/uploads folder on the server.

Please make sure that WordPress has read/write access to it’s folders/files by following the Permission Scheme for WordPress and check the permissions on the server. If you have SSH access read this.

Let me know if this fixes the issue.

Hi tripphowell,

step 3 & 4 can be done to avoid the timeout issue you’re having. You can move your images to the new server via FTP prior or after importing the .xml file data. If you leave the ‘Download and import file attachments’ unchecked while importing, WordPress will only import the data provided in the .xml file and does not try to download & store the media files hosted from your ‘old’ to your ‘new’ server.

Another option would be to increase the PHP timeouts (via php.ini or .htaccess) on the server, ask Google or your hoster on how to do this.

HTH

Thanks for the review, appreciate it!