Umbraco version 8.18.15 Workspace export doesn't work

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I’m trying to do a Workspace export on the Umbraco version 8.18.15 project. The export runs without errors, but when I try to download the archive, it weighs only 1KB, and the archive is damaged; do you have any idea why that is?

Thanks

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I feel like I’ve encountered the same issue, but can’t remember how I got past it exactly…

One thing which might help is to reduce the size of the export by starting with just the schema, and seeing if that exports successfully., and if so, then adding in the other items one at a time, to see where it blows up.

Also, the Umbraco Logs might list any issues which the Exporter has come across.

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Thanks, Heather!

There are no errors in the logs at all; all green.

Strange, it works separately, it doesn’t work only when I want to do a full export

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So, are you able to get everything exported/imported if you break it into the segments?

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Depending on the number of nodes and their dependencies, it’s likely due to memory constraints on the server. I’ve had similar problems in the past and can export happily on a local machine (after cloning everything down) but can’t on the live site. Similarly, large sites don’t cope well with attempting to retrieve or push the entire tree with deploy.

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Should it work if I combine files from different archives?

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I think you can import the schema file, then import the content file.

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@villian - I found a related GitHub issue conversation about this: Feedback on download export zip file · Issue #217 · umbraco/Umbraco.Deploy.Issues · GitHub