Title: Importer Memory Error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Importer Memory Error

 *  [ithacaindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ithacaindy/)
 * (@ithacaindy)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importer-memory-error/)
 * I’m trying to import data (posts and pages) from one WordPress 3.5 site into 
   another. When I select the .xml file, after a few minutes, the WordPress importer
   screen gives me this error:
 * `Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   76 bytes) in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-importer/
   parsers.php on line 465`
 * What is the fix and the cause?

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importer-memory-error/#post-3316438)
 * Using [FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients) you can try increasing the
   memory for PHP and WordPress in several different ways:
 * 1) You can edit the memory_limit line in your php.ini (if you have access to 
   that file) to increase memory to 64M:
 * `memory_limit = 64M;`
 * 2) Try adding the ‘define” line below in your [wp-config.php](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php)
   file a few lines of white space below the opening `<?php`
 * `define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');`
 * 3) If those don’t work, try adding this line at the top of your .htaccess file:
 * `php_value memory_limit 64M`
 * If that doesn’t work or throws a “500 Internal Server Error”, delete the line
   from .htaccess.
 * If none of those work, your host probably doesn’t allow memory allocation overrides.
   You’re stuck with what they give.
 *  Thread Starter [ithacaindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ithacaindy/)
 * (@ithacaindy)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importer-memory-error/#post-3316442)
 * I’ll give your suggestions a try. In the meantime, I’m trying to limit the size
   of the import by exporting only published posts – which still hits around 49M.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importer-memory-error/#post-3316443)
 * You may also need to increase php timeout limits. You also need to try splitting
   the WXR file. See [WordPress WXR File Splitter (RSS XML)](http://www.rangerpretzel.com/content/view/20/1/)
 *  Thread Starter [ithacaindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ithacaindy/)
 * (@ithacaindy)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importer-memory-error/#post-3316444)
 * The file splitter seems interesting, but I’m on a Mac.
 *  Thread Starter [ithacaindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ithacaindy/)
 * (@ithacaindy)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importer-memory-error/#post-3316446)
 * Update 2: the memory define in config.php didn’t help.
 *  Thread Starter [ithacaindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ithacaindy/)
 * (@ithacaindy)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importer-memory-error/#post-3316448)
 * Update 3: the memory limit in .htaccess throws a 500 error. Next step: ask host
   tech support for help.

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 * Last reply from: [ithacaindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ithacaindy/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importer-memory-error/#post-3316448)
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