Title: 2.5 database importing problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 2.5 database importing problem

 *  [fcheze2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fcheze2/)
 * (@fcheze2)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-database-importing-problem/)
 * when i import a database, i get the message
 * invalid file
 * Please upload a valid WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS) export file.
 * i tried uploading the same database onto my other blog which is still running
   2.3 and it works fine.

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 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-database-importing-problem/#post-734250)
 * A database dump, which is just text version of the MySQL queries needed to restore
   your database, is different from a WXR export file.
 * You can restore a database dump using phpMyAdmin, which is usually part of your
   site’s control panel.
 *  Thread Starter [fcheze2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fcheze2/)
 * (@fcheze2)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-database-importing-problem/#post-734315)
 * i found out the problem. forgot to mention that the file importing were split
   into parts,
 * wordpress.xml.1, wordpress.xml.2 etc
 * the original export file was split up, randomly cut and paste into a new part
 * uploading each part in worked in v2.3.1,
    but in v2.5 i could upload part 1, 
   but would get the error message for part 2 and so on.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [fcheze2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fcheze2/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-database-importing-problem/#post-734315)
 * Status: not resolved

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