Yes and no.. I understand that doing these steps will allow me to run a local vopy of vb on my local PC but How do I import a copy of my production database and entire site to run locally for testing was my question rather then running a new fresh copy of VB?

been using this for a year or so with the older verson, i just change PCs. so i had to get this back.
this way is alot easier the the firest tut.

Heh, I had no idea this thread was still alive after all this time.

I'll keep an eye on this thread from now on.. my appologies to everyone I didn't assist.

For what it's worth - I installed this recently on several machines and it works flawlessly on them both. Not sure there's anyting needs 'fixing'... great work thanks.

Thanks for your positive feedback ;).

I am having problems importing my production database after I downloaded it and renamed it as specified in the directions. From phpmyadmin I try to do the import the area when the directions says go get a cup of coffee :D well I have tried serveral time and the page ends up timing our saying page cant be displayed... I all coffeied out doing this can someone help please.. My database is 260 mb and I am on a windows 2K machine.

Well, a 260 mb database is indeed a bit too big for phpMyAdmin ;).

I'm pretty sure your answer has already been answered in this thread though. Have a read through the pages and you'll probably find it.

Could not find a simular problem in the thread?

Well, what you can do is import parts of the database step by step. So basicly copy 1/10th of the database file (make sure you end the copy/paste at the end of a table inject or things will get messy ^^).

trying to import the database, its "only" 36mb but its been importing for the last 3 hours. restart?