Title: Cannot Export
Last modified: March 1, 2026

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# Cannot Export

 *  Resolved [three_star_dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/three_star_dave/)
 * (@three_star_dave)
 * [3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-export-8/)
 * When I try to export my Redirection information (before doing an upgrade), I 
   can View the export, but when I click on [Download] it comes back with
 * > The link you followed has expired.
   > Please Try Again
 * That latter is a link that takes me back to the Redirection Import/Export page.
 * I have tried this with both JSON and CSV exports.

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [2 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-export-8/#post-18837161)
 * What kind of upgrade? Did you have the page open for a long time? I wasn’t able
   to reproduce this.
 *  Thread Starter [three_star_dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/three_star_dave/)
 * (@three_star_dave)
 * [2 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-export-8/#post-18838481)
 * I am on 5.6.1, looking to run the update to 5.7.5. I usually export the system
   before doing the update.
 * I go to Tools > Redirection > Import/Export. I choose Everything / JSON and immediately
   click on Download.
 * I get the message described above.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [2 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-export-8/#post-18839066)
 * Ok, so the problem sounds like its on 5.6.1? Does it exist on the latest version?
 *  Thread Starter [three_star_dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/three_star_dave/)
 * (@three_star_dave)
 * [2 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-export-8/#post-18839760)
 * I don’t know, because I haven’t updated, because I can’t export my Redirect information
   before I do so.
 * . . .
 * Okay, I went ahead and sort of _manually _backed it up — I did the View of the
   export, and copy-pasted the window’s contents into a text file. I did this with
   both CSV and JSON.
 * I ran the upgrade. It seemed to go okay.
 * When I went to the Redirects page, I got _“API response validation failed: monitor\
   _post: Invalid input: expected number, received string”_ … but the REST API tested
   Green/Good.
 * Support page all Green/Good.
 * Purged cache. Support page still all Green/Good.
 * Redirects page … no error thrown. … now okay.
 * And tested, and JSON Export now works without a problem. So … problem solved,
   I guess.

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 * Last reply from: [three_star_dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/three_star_dave/)
 * Last activity: [2 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-export-8/#post-18839760)
 * Status: resolved