WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/windows-live-spaces-spacezip-import-into-wordpress WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress? en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:34:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 benryanau on "Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/windows-live-spaces-spacezip-import-into-wordpress#post-814989 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:02:50 +0000 benryanau 814989@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Heh yeah, true.
Spose I shouldn't complain there, though their communication was poor on the shutdown - I didn't realise until it had happened. Must have been only one email notice (that I must have missed) cause I sure didn't see anything about the shutdown prior to it happening.
Ahh what can you expect for free eh? :)

]]> airodyssey on "Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/windows-live-spaces-spacezip-import-into-wordpress#post-814907 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:57:20 +0000 airodyssey 814907@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Consider yourself lucky that instead of deleting your blog for good as they said they would, Microsoft gave you a backup of your blog (although not in an "importable" way). :-)

]]> benryanau on "Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/windows-live-spaces-spacezip-import-into-wordpress#post-814812 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:26:47 +0000 benryanau 814812@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Nobody replied from WP.
The bottom line is, practically speaking - you can't do it.

I'm an IT professional (though not a coder) and exhausted all but one possibility - a set of blog migration tools that would have taken 2 hrs to install and configure.. and not likely to work anyhow.
I spent ages exporting, importing, hand-editing XML - but nothing worked properly.

Eventually I sat down and migrated the posts manually (sigh).. used Windows Live Writer rather than the WP web interface as it was quicker.

A real bollocks from MS Live and WordPress, thanks guys.

]]> airodyssey on "Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/windows-live-spaces-spacezip-import-into-wordpress#post-791821 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:27:04 +0000 airodyssey 791821@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So far the answer is that there is no way to import the contents of the ZIP file automatically. It has to be copied and pasted manually.
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-import-the-zip-file-exported-from-spacelive?replies=4
Still, I'd be interested to know if staff says otherwise.

]]> justjennifer on "Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/windows-live-spaces-spacezip-import-into-wordpress#post-791740 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:26:49 +0000 justjennifer 791740@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That'd be great!

]]> benryanau on "Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/windows-live-spaces-spacezip-import-into-wordpress#post-791739 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:21:39 +0000 benryanau 791739@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ok thanks. I'll post a followup here based on the advice from support.

]]> justjennifer on "Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/windows-live-spaces-spacezip-import-into-wordpress#post-791734 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:16:36 +0000 justjennifer 791734@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Please contact Support directly at http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ as they are the only ones who can assist you.

]]> benryanau on "Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/windows-live-spaces-spacezip-import-into-wordpress#post-791729 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:02:23 +0000 benryanau 791729@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,
I missed the window for auto-migration of WLS into WordPress.
Fortunately my content was not lost, Microsoft had a limited time where you could obtain your old content in a ZIP file (SPACE.ZIP). This ZIP contains a bunch of HTML files which won't directly import into WordPress that I can see.

Can you advise me on a method to import this content into my blog where it will maintain post dates, comments etc?
If third-party utilities are necessary that's fine.

Thanks
Ben

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