Title: script errors, does not transfer plugins, db error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# script errors, does not transfer plugins, db error

 *  [cscottb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cscottb/)
 * (@cscottb)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/script-errors-does-not-transfer-plugins-db-error/)
 * This is a very simple move. I am migrating from one directory to another on the
   same server.
 * When running the Migrate function of the Migration Assistant, I get numerous 
   Scrip Error messages. This is more of a nuisance than anything else, as the script
   seems to be quite potent. It temporally freezes the browser. In a few seconds,
   everything is fine, and a list of files and folders to be transferred is displayed.
 * The migration process seems to run smoothy, and is very fast. But the size of
   the 2 zipped folders that end up in the backup folder of the remote directory
   are only about 4.5MB. My site is about 40MB (the sql file is about 8MB).
 * When I complete the migration, a start page is displayed on the front end, but
   if any link is clicked, a blank page comes up with: “Error establishing a database
   connection”
 * If I go back to the Plugins window in the backend (of the romote site), there
   is a list of plugins, each in their own little section that reads: “The plugin(
   name of plugin)/plugin.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file 
   does not exist.” If I open the plugins folder of the site, there are no plugin
   folders other than for Move WordPress.
 * When I run a Complete a Full Backup, in the Backup Manager (of the original installation),
   it produces 5 zipped folders that add up to about 40MB. When I run the migration
   process without any backups in the Backup Manager, it only produces 2 zipped 
   folders that only add up to about 7MB. If I run the migration process, after 
   running a complete backup and leaving those folders there, the migration process
   duplicates the 5 zipped folders that also add up to about 40MB.
 * But no matter the number of folders in the Backup Manager at the time of migration,
   no plugin folders are migrated, only 2 zipped folders end up in the destination
   backup folder (at about 7MB), no plugin folders are migrated, and I get the db
   connection error. (In all cases, the plugin folders do show up in the list of
   files and folders to be migrated in the migration setup window.)
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