robbart

Ok, I googled those programs you mentioned, and they appear to be Mac OS X programs. Are you using a Mac?

Please post more information.

FTP is a way of moving files to and from your computer to other computers.

An FTP program is program that you use to move the files VIA FTP from your computer to one elsewhere.

To use FTP, you need your FTP information from your wordpress host. , usually a username and password and FTP address.

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Thy symptoms you describe (“I double click the file and a Microsoft Word document loaded up with random letters, symbols.”) are not normal. Do you see this behavior with any other programs you try to run?

What Operating System are you running (Windows 98, 2000, XP)?
What program are you trying to run? Where did you get it from?
Are you running any anti-virus software? If so, have you updated your virus definitions recently?

Ok, I just wanted to let you guys know that the problem was somehow related to the host.

Does the RSS import feature require PHP not to be in safe mode?

I moved the blog to my own server from a shared blog server, and it imported successfully.

I think the only difference might be the shared host may have been running in safe mode, or something else specific to their environment.

Anyways, the feed imported successfully on my own VPS, so this issue has been resolved. Thanks for the help.

Here are two dates in the RSS Feed.

Imported successfully:
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:14:00 -0400</pubDate>

Did not import:
<pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:00:00 -0400</pubDate>

As you can tell, there is nothing really all that different about them, so I don’t think that’s the problem.

I will continue researching other avenues, including validating my RSS feed.

Incidentally, the feed should be identical from top to bottom, in the way it works. It is a ColdFusion application, so I don’t imagine the author of the app would change the way it handles blog entries in part based on date or anything. I imagine it’s simply looping over a SQL record set. As such, it should be treating every entry exactly the same.

In any case, I will check out the RSS feed with a validator, just the same.

ccoupe,

Thanks for your answer.

I am running Apache on Linux. Where would the logs you are speaking of be located?

It is a VPS, so I am the SU on the box.

I have tried importing 1 single entry, just removing everything, but the header info, and the entry itself, and I get the exact same results.

What’s particularly frustrating, is that I am a ColdFusion developer. I know how to troubleshoot a CF application. I just don’t know how to troubleshoot a PHP app. Any advice in that arena would be beneficial.

I will look to see if the date formats changed, and respond in kind.

Thanks again.

Thanks whoami, but that thread was under misc, and as such, I don’t know that anyone was going to see it. Not sure if you noticed, but it was posted yesterday, and hadn’t received any responses. Hence, why I posted the same here.

This is the appropriate place for this thread.

I don’t need to add more info unless someone has something to ask.