Browser, browser version, and OS please. Also do you have your browser set up to launch another program when it comes to *.xml files?
I’m tempted to suggest exporting out the database myself and doing a search and replace on the file myself. Without knowing what exactly is being changed, it’s kind of hard to make an exact suggestion though.
Hello,
I have the same problem: the resulting xml file is empty. Tried it with Firefox 1.5 and IE6 on Linux.
Would appreciate any help. I just spent hours to manually update the db tables of my WP test install, just to produce that darn XML file.
I am moving my blog to wordpress.com, and I can’t access the db directly, which leaves me with this option only.
Thanks,
Sonja
UPDATE: When I leave the “Restrict Authors” field empty, the basic data (blog name, etc.) are being written to the resulting XML file. However, if I choose All or a certain author, the XML file is empty (and I mean, empty… not a single line to see). This might be a timeout problem, maybe too many posts (I have around 380 in my blog).
Same problem here. I tried both Firefox and Camino on OS X. Medical’s solution worked for me – I could export my “admin” user account, but not a second user account. But it is not a issue of having too many posts – this is a very small site on which I don’t use the blog features, just “pages.” Also, the second user doesn’t work at all. I am going to go through and manually try changing all the users to be “admin” and try again…
In doing this I notice that the pages in the other user’s name were created a long time ago, presumably imported or preserved from when my usernames were different. This user no longer exists, which may be what is causing the problem!
UPDATE: Still can’t do “All” after changing ownership of all posts to “admin” however, at least when I do an “admin” export I’ll be sure to have everything, and that still works. May be that the user tables are corrupted…
