Title: Lost database with export error?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Lost database with export error?

 *  [snajcziuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snajcziuk/)
 * (@snajcziuk)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-database-with-export-error/)
 * I was following instructions to export a database in preparation for ftp transfer.
   Instead of clicking ‘save as file’ in mamp local host phpadmin – I made the mistake
   of saving it in the browser window as an html.
    I’m surprised it should have 
   done anything to alter the original file, but everything seems to be gone!! What
   does/should my database file look like? Where does it reside? [local server..]
   How can I try and recover it? Are any of the files housed in the theme folder?
 * Is the database, the whole collection of files installed from wordpress?
    If 
   an import is required, how is that done?
 * Thanks!

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