Export your Account Data
You can download your personal data from OpenLab in a single export file. Note that this will only download text data. Images and videos will have to be downloaded manually, clicking on their links. The following items will be included, if applicable:
- Profile and user information
- Activity data, including comments, discussion forum posts, docs, and links to files and other media
- Friend information
- Group membership information
- Messages
- Notifications
- Account settings
- Site posts
Before exporting
If you want to export a site with all its contents for another site within City Tech’s OpenLab, another site where the plugin is also activated (like the OpenLab at BMCC) you should use the Openlab Export-Import plugin.
If you want to export a single site to another WordPress site that doesn’t have the OpenLab Export-Import plugin installed, you can use the regular WordPress export functionality found in Dashboard > Tools > Export.
Exporting your personal data
1. Go to My OpenLab, then My Settings, then Data Export. On the Data Export page, click the Download Data button at the bottom of the page.
2. Wait for the processing to finish. It is important that you don’t navigate away from this page or you will have to restart the export process again.
3. Once the process is done, click the Download Personal Data link.
4. This will download the data to your computer. For privacy and security reasons, the link will only be available for other downloads for a few days. After that, you will need to redo the process.
The data will be downloaded in a zip file called “wp-personal-data-file” (with some additional numbers and letters in the file name).
When you unzip the file, you will see a folder containing an index.html file and export.json. Click on the html file to view the contents of the export in your browser.
The export contains text only; files, images, and other media are not included but you can download them separately by clicking on the links in the Activity data section of the index.html file.
