Exporting Products

**Miff** · 29 May 2011, 04:17 PM

Is there a method of exporting all products, categories, sub categories and sub-sub categories, including all prices, descriptions, quantities, weights and all other details, from a currently active zen cart website to a brand new installation?

**CoolCarPartsOnline** · 29 May 2011, 05:20 PM

Easy Populate can export product/categories.

To do a complete copy you have to backup the database and install it in the new database and empty all the tables related to previous store customers/orders.

**dbltoe** · 29 May 2011, 06:56 PM

Don't forget the images directory. Copying the database will move the pointers but not the image files.

**Miff** · 29 May 2011, 08:58 PM

Thank you. I have searched for easy populate but there are so many different versions. Could you link me to the one I will need

**schoolboy** · 29 May 2011, 10:03 PM

Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 is the most stable.

I have written a tutorial on its use:
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

**Miff** · 30 May 2011, 10:33 PM

Thank you. I have used easy populate to export the:

Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit (Attributes Not Included)

and

Download Model/Attributes tab-delimited .txt file

The only issue is that it does not seem to have carried over any of my meta tags. Am i downloading the incorrect files or can anybody tell me how I can also carry my tags over.

**Miff** · 30 May 2011, 10:41 PM

Also just noticed that the sort orders of any of my categories or products are all set to 0. Is there any way that I can carry the exact settings from my previous store including meta tags and sort orders?