Title: Importing Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Importing Problem

 *  [Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mchlsync/)
 * (@mchlsync)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-problem-1/)
 * I’m getting this error when I tried to import xml which is exported from [my blog ](http://michaelsync.net)
   to local wordpress.
 * **Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   35 bytes) in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\import\wordpress.php on line 
   87**
 * Any Idea how to solve this problem?
    Thanks in advance.
 * Best Regards,
    Michael Sync
 * P.S: XML file szie is 7.25 MB.

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 *  [sta1r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amucklow/)
 * (@amucklow)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-problem-1/#post-574643)
 * Hi Michael
 * I’ve read a few other strands on this, but none of them appears to solve the 
   problem. I’m trying to import a blog from a Dreamhost Apache install to an Netcetera
   IIS install, and the import script triggers this error:
    `Fatal error: Allowed
   memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24576 bytes) in \\nas1.
   hosting.netcetera.co.uk\inetc710$\virtualservers68647\hand-embroidery.co.uk\NewWebsite\
   wordpress\wp-admin\import\textpattern.php on line 621` The Dreamhost php config
   allows a 90M memory limit, whereas the IIS config sets it at a measly 8M. I’m
   trying to get Netcetera to up the limit. In the meantime, I visited [one site](http://www.tech-recipes.com/php_programming_tips777.html)
   which advised adding `ini_set("memory_limit","12M");` at the start of the script(
   in my case textpattern.php) to increase the memory size for a single script. 
   I upped it to 90M but still nothing. My XML file size is 40K.
 * Alastair
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-problem-1/#post-574644)
 * Do you have access to php.ini file? That’s where the 8MB php max mem value is
   defaulted.
 * Might check with your host about boosting it.
 *  [sta1r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amucklow/)
 * (@amucklow)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-problem-1/#post-574645)
 * Thanks – I’m on to them. Evidently 8M is too small to run upgrade-schema.php 
   as well.
 *  [sta1r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amucklow/)
 * (@amucklow)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-problem-1/#post-574691)
 * Just to follow up on this – Netcetera wouldn’t increase the memory allocation
   on a shared hosting plan. I did eventually manage to export and import the blog
   in .sql format via phpMyAdmin.
 * I was only able to run upgrade-schema.php after deactivating all plugins.

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 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-problem-1/#post-574691)
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