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Hello,

My site is http://norcalsc.com

I am trying to export my entries. I used the instructions found here:
http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Export_Entries/

There are four blogs under my “weblog management” section and I was able to get it to work for me on all but my main blog. When I enter the name of my main blog where it says “default_site” and click “view” on the templates screen, a new window opens, but nothing loads. It opens the address http://www.norcalsc.com/index.php/export/index/

I’m wondering if there are too many entries or comments on the main blog? Do I need to export in batches? I’d like to get this resolved asap, thanks for your help in advance!

Here’s the exact code in the “index” template in my “export” group:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="Norcal Strength & Conditioning" limit="999" rdf="off"} 
AUTHOR: {author} 
TITLE: {title} 
STATUS: Publish 
ALLOW COMMENTS: 2 
CONVERT BREAKS: br 
{categories}CATEGORY: {category_name} 
{/categories} 
DATE: {entry_date format='%m/%d/%Y %h:%i:%s %A'} 
----- 
BODY: 
{body} 
----- 
EXTENDED BODY: 
{extended} 
----- 
{embed="export/comments" the_entry_id="{entry_id}"} 
-------- 
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Thanks in advance!

Morning Robbnick - welcome to the forums!

A blank screen is usually indicative of a suppressed PHP error.  In this case, I’m going to guess that this is a memory error.  Yes - loading too many entries at once.

Can you try lowering that limit=?  Start at 500, if it is still blank, lower it again until you figure out the max number of entries you can load without the blank screen.  Once you figure that out, you can use that in conjunction with offset= to batch your export.

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It is good to have PHP Memories available to Super Admins.  Can you let me know if Admin > System Preferences > Output and Debugging says Debugging: 1: PHP Errors Shown to Superadmins?  If not, you’ll want to change it to that and see if you get a PHP error.  That’ll help us diagnose this or future “blank page” output.

Let me know how you get on!

Hi, I took the limit all the way down to 10 in increments (tried 500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 10) and am still getting a blank page. In Debug Preference, it is set to “1” as you suggested.

Any other ideas? Thanks.

Hi, robbnick.

See this part of your text: Norcal Strength & Conditioning

That’s not the short name of your weblog, so you won’t get any results unless you use the short name. See what your short name is for the weblog, and set your limit to be 100. Does *that* work?

That worked! I did not realize it was supposed to be the short name. Thank you so much!

Yeah! Glad to hear it. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.