Title: Export incomplete?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Export incomplete?

 *  [warmowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warmowski/)
 * (@warmowski)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-incomplete-2/)
 * Today I upgraded from 2.0.1 to 2.7.1 and that went pretty well, no major problems
   that I can find.
 * The whole point of doing this was to acquire the export function in WP in order
   to simplify the export of the blog in anticipation of a migration.
 * The problem is that running export produces an incomplete XML file. For one thing,
   it’s 17MB where the sql backup of the db is 200+ MB.
 * It contains as far as I can see, no posts and it seems to be made mainly of spam
   comments. (Askimet has been activated at this blog forever).
 * Any ideas?
 * -r

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 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-incomplete-2/#post-1047255)
 * > It contains as far as I can see, no posts and it seems to be made mainly of
   > spam comments. (Askimet has been activated at this blog forever).
 * Askimet simply being activated doesn’t delete the spam by default…you have to
   login, got to comments, click on spam link and delete them. Try that and if it
   helps.
 *  [cmarina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmarina/)
 * (@cmarina)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-incomplete-2/#post-1047415)
 * I am experiencing the same problem only I have 2 authors with a total of 920 
   posts and 1 author has most of the posts. In my case, my export file is only 
   5mb. I took a look at the export file and the posts are not even in the file.
   I have tried disabling all plugins, disabling the current theme and using a basic
   theme and still nothing.
 * Any other ideas?

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-incomplete-2/#post-1047415)
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