Title: Incomplete Export, No Deploy, No Errors Last modified: June 14, 2024 --- # Incomplete Export, No Deploy, No Errors * Resolved [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/) * (@luhmann) * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomplete-export-no-deploy-no-errors/) * WordPress 6.5.4 PHP 8.2(Hosted on a DreamHost shared server.)Simply Static Version 3.1.7.1Activity Log:[2024-06-14 03:30:03] Setting up[2024-06-14 03:30:04] Fetched 2 of 78 pages/files[2024-06-14 03:30:13] Done! Finished in 00:00:13 * There are no error messages, and files are created in the temp directory, but there is no ZIP file or deploy to a local folder (if I choose that option instead). Moreover, the version in the temp files is only about half or perhaps 1/3 of my site. Please advise. Thanks. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Plugin Author [patrickposner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickposner/) * (@patrickposner) * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomplete-export-no-deploy-no-errors/#post-17830062) * Hey [@luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/), * thanks for reaching out! * That is indeed a bit strange. My first bet was WP-Cron, but even without it you should be able to export at least some more pages. * Anything flagged in diagnostics? You might want to follow our debugging guide right here to get that sorted: [https://docs.simplystatic.com/article/72-how-to-use-the-debugging-mode](https://docs.simplystatic.com/article/72-how-to-use-the-debugging-mode) Cheers,Patrick * Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/) * (@luhmann) * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomplete-export-no-deploy-no-errors/#post-17830166) * Thanks Patrick. I have a log file for you, but no email address. Where should I send it? (File is only 107kb). There do seem to be some error messages, but I don’t understand them. * Regarding “there is no ZIP file or deploy to a local folder” I see now that the diagnostics screen says “Web server can not write to Local Directory” – I have some control over this shared server, is there some way I can try to fix this? * Plugin Author [patrickposner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickposner/) * (@patrickposner) * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomplete-export-no-deploy-no-errors/#post-17830187) * [@luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/) Excellent, send the file via e-mail to [support@simplystatic.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomplete-export-no-deploy-no-errors/support@simplystatic.com?output_format=md). * **Web server can not write to Local Directory** * Thankfully, you can configure the directory in the settings. * Go to Simply Static -> Settings -> Misc -> Temporary Files, and you can adjust the path we use to save the temporary files while running an export. * By default, we use your-system-path/wp-content/uploads/simply-static/temp-files/– it could be enough to create the /temp-files/ directory manually via FTP (maybe the user has access to read/write files but is not allowed to create new files). * Once that’s sorted, you should be able to run exports without any issues and get the ZIP file link to download it. * Cheers, Patrick * Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/) * (@luhmann) * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomplete-export-no-deploy-no-errors/#post-17830242) * Dear Patrick, 1. I have sent you an email.2. Regarding the “write to Local Directory,” I think I was not clear. It has no problem writing to the temp file directory in uploads, but it won’t save a Zip file there, or if I create a second folder at the same level as the temp file folder (in “uploads”) and try to use that as the “local directory” it won’t write to that folder either. * Thread Starter [luhmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luhmann/) * (@luhmann) * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incomplete-export-no-deploy-no-errors/#post-17864749) * Dear Patrick, * I fed the debug log into Claude3 AI. It identified the “writers_new_excerpt_more” function as the problem. I then copied the relevant code from functions.php into Claude3 and it re-wrote it for me. Took two tries, but it got it right and now everything works. Export went from a few hundred files to over 5000. It even output a ZIP file. Amazing. Thanks again for your help. You can mark this as solved. 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