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Solomonia
Hi,

I'm trying to help a friend take one of those text dumps of their 2.63 posts and import it into a fresh installation of 4.1. Their host just disappeared, but they at least have this text file, albeit some months out of date -- not bad, though, considering the blog goes back to 2002.

Can I import this file into a clean install of 4.1? I've been trying but it's not working and I want to make sure it's not just something I'm doing wrong. I took a small bit of this almost 5meg file to avoid timeout issues and get a message that the data has been imported, but I don't see any posts or authors created.

If not, what would be an approach I could use? Would I perhaps install an old version of MT (is so, where can I download it), import the file and then upgrade that database?

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks!

Solomonia
Resolution: If something's not working, try again and don't trust auto mode on your FTP program. Upload .txt files in forced ascii mode.
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