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I sat up MAMP on my mac and installed wordpress 3.1. Then, I exported my wordpress.com ina tried to import to my local wordpress.... I ticked import media option and I was hoping that I will get all my posta and attachments copied across but I got only posts imported properly... For each and every attachment at wordpress.com I got error saying media import failed!!

Am I doing something wrong? Please help I have thousands of PDF/jpg attachments which I want imported...

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I solved the problem... my source blog was private i.e. required password... I made it public for couple of minutes, and importer plugin did it's job properly!

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Did you make sure that your uploads folder (usually wp-content/uploads) was writable by your local apache server?

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