Title: error importing database
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# error importing database

 *  [Lmounir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lmounir/)
 * (@lmounir)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-importing-database-2/)
 * Hi guys,
    I got tired of my web hosting company so i tried to move my website
   to another, but i’ve got a problem with importing the database Error: “Unknown
   collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_ci” and else, so i searched and i found this [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-error-when-importing-database-1?replies=3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sql-error-when-importing-database-1?replies=3),
   they say that the problem is in the sql version, i have no way to change that,
   so they say also to try and change “utf8mb4” to “utf8” so i did it and i finally
   uploaded successfully but i’ve got a problem with post-new.php it’s frozen i 
   can do nothing, so.. please help

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 *  [dimitris33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimitris33/)
 * (@dimitris33)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-importing-database-2/#post-6658708)
 * Hi,
 * what is post-new.php ? are you sure that the problem is in your theme?

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## Tags

 * [collation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/collation/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [new-post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/new-post/)
 * [utf8mb4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf8mb4/)

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 * Last reply from: [dimitris33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimitris33/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-importing-database-2/#post-6658708)
 * Status: not resolved

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