Exporting uploads from discourse.org to self-hosted

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Hi,

I’m in the process of transfering the ownership of my discourse community to a friend, and he would like to run Discourse with a different hosting provider (I’m currently on a discourse.org plan)

The transition appears to be going smoothly but there is one thing that I cannot figure out. Is there a way to export all user-uploaded content from the account so it can be transferred to another hosting provider?

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Just take a backup and restore it. Unless you click the “don’t include files” button you’ll get the database and the files.

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You will get the content, but the posts will likely contain references to the Discourse.org CDN, and if your database name changes, those links will break inmediately upon import too.

So you will need to rebake or search/replace.

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