First upload the .sql file on your server using an FTP client and remember the path.

eg.
For Linux
/home/lopau/mydump.sql

for Windows
C:/wamp/www/lopau/mydump.sql

Login to your server using an SSH client like Putty.

On the command line access MySQL
$> mysql -u username -p password

replace username and password with yours.

On the MySQL client command line access and use your database.
$> use lopaudb;

Now to import your dump;
$> source /home/lopau/mydump.sql;

If successful you should see
Query OK, 13 rows affected (0.00 sec)

That easy.

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Yesterday my host changed servers, then I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress and everything got whack on uploading images in the admin with this error.

Unable to create directory /home/username/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2008/05. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

Most people encounter the error after upgrading WordPress or changing servers

Here are troubleshooting steps you can do.
1. With the error above, it can be assumed it is a permission problem with the folder. Default is 755, With your FTP software or WebFTP, edit the uploads folder in the wp-content to 777. Then try again.

2. If that doesn’t work, it can be an ownership issue. Wherein the owner of the files is apache and not your user account.

If you have access to SSH, you can edit the file to change ownership to

chown -R username:apache_user /home/username/public_html/wp-content/

username:apache_user for me is the ftp account, others are different.

3. If this doesn’t work. Check the upload path in the admin – Settings – Miscellaneous and make sure it is wp-content/uploads sometimes the upgrade or server move changes it to the absolute path.

The 3rd solution worked for me. Hope you find this useful

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