Wordpress > Blogger results in duplicate entries

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. I followed the instructions and tried it 5 times. What I found worked 
was if I clicked create new blog (BLOGGER) (I already had one to begin 
with), imported it, then exported the blog from the temp one, and then 
imported into the good one, all was well.

2. But if I would just import into my existing, duplicate. I do have 342 
entries and the XML had no duplicates. Just found it odd.

This was all via: http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/

I was going to run this on my own webserver tonight until we had a water 
main issue and the servers had to be powered off. I'll try and run this on 
my box this weekend and see if it duplicates there as well.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Ranger...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2009 at 9:44

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Issue was replicated again this time in a different domain/directory etc and 
then 
trying to import.

JJ, if I can replicate another time in a totally new blog, I'll send you the 
xml 
file. I'd rather not post a 400 item blog here as an attachment. ;)

-----REPOST. I was signed in as my daughter. RRRG.

Original comment by Ranger...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2009 at 4:14

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Sure thing.  If you can continue to replicate it, please let me try to help out 
where
I can.

I'm trying to understand if this is perhaps a Blogger issue instead of a 
conversion
issue.  You mentioned that the XML file after conversion has no duplicates, but 
when
you import that file you get duplicates into the new blog.  Do you get two of 
every
post, or many duplicates of a single post.

Thanks for trying out the conversion.  I'm sure we can track this problem down.

Cheers,
-JJ.

Original comment by jlu...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2009 at 4:08

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Logged into WP, exported the 900K XML file.

Went to blogger, made a new account. Went to import and first attempt yielded:

We're sorry, but we were unable to complete your request.

When reporting this error to Blogger Support or on the Blogger Help Group, 
please:

Describe what you were doing when you got this error. 
Provide the following error code and additional information.
bX-wciwx2
Additional information

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Next attempt, http://www.blogger.com/import-blog.do (no error, just stops 
there) 
without full page formatting.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; 
Trident/4.0; 
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; SLCC1; .NET CLR 
2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
Timestamp: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:48:15 UTC

Message: 'BLOG_ProgressBar' is undefined
Line: 7
Char: 11
Code: 0
URI: http://www.blogger.com/import-blog.do

Oddly, it was all there when I closed the page and reopened. I'll try and 
replicate 
it one more time by deleting all the posts, and recreating.

Original comment by Ranger...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2009 at 10:03

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This time I did the same thing, again, and it all went fine. I'm wondering if 
while 
importing into Blogger, if something is timing out? All 342 items imported fine 
this 
time with no duplicates. This was again, on a brand new gmail account.

I went back to my original blog which the issue started on, ran the import 
again, 
and it's stuck on importing a comment, yet all the items and comments appear to 
be 
in the "Imported" area. It seems like Googles side is timing out.

Started over again.. The errors are in the error window in IE 8 RC1.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; 
Trident/4.0; 
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; SLCC1; .NET CLR 
2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
Timestamp: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:24:19 UTC

Message: 'BLOG_ProgressBar' is undefined
Line: 9
Char: 11
Code: 0
URI: http://www.blogger.com/import-blog.do

Original comment by Ranger...@gmail.com on 5 Feb 2009 at 10:27

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I would agree that it seems as though Blogger is timing out on the UI side of 
things.
 I've seen this behavior before as well.  But, when I go back and manage my post
after one of these hung imports, I actually see all of the posts/comments that 
I was
expecting to be imported.  Not all the time, mind you, but most of the time.

This is not the greatest behavior for the import, I agree.  But, if the number 
of
posts and comments look correct to you, I guess you could assume that the import
finished properly.

As for the message 'BLOG_ProgressBar' is undefined, that is a javascript error 
that
happens on the import status page.  This error would definitely cause the UI to
timeout to the backend.  This is just a problem that Blogger should have fixed 
for
that particular browser.

Original comment by jlu...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2009 at 4:26

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well same is going over with me also what to do 

http://www.seo-strategies.org is my blog

Original comment by madhusud...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2009 at 3:14