I think there is a misunderstanding of what I'm trying to accomplish. I am trying to learn how to take a set of products/categories (including their detailed attributes info) from one store and add them to another store. So, as a first step in learning how to do this, for simplicity I tried in the above example to just go ahead and import all the products/categories including their detailed attributes and I failed.
So, maybe it is less confusing if I ask the direct question . . .
What is the procedure for getting a set of products including their detailed attributes from one store into another store?
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