Quote Originally Posted by Zean View Post
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?
Export the database of the old store (phpmyadmin), import the database into a new/equivalent (not older) store, upload zc_install for the version of the destination store. Access the new store using zc_install on the path, provide the admin credentials of the old store. Select database upgrade. That is the basic "upgrade" ones site instruction that is probably better described here.

If the other additional information is not desired, then would still suggest a similar process but use an intermediate "site" on which to upgrade the database, then to export the applicable product table data (multiple tables) and import to the new store (replacing existing content).

Otherwise up to the point of detailing the attributes with the extra data, EP4 at least carries over the "basics" of the product when trying to do such a move. The last step requires a bit of shuffling.