# Elementary question about Exporting too many files Error **URL:** \ **Category:** Beginners\ **Created:** [May 20, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/elementary-question-about-exporting-too-many-files-error/3015 "2019-05-20T20:30:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Carol](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/carol/32/2089_2.png) [@Carol](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Carol)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/elementary-question-about-exporting-too-many-files-error/3015/1 "2019-05-20T20:30:29Z")
I’m still getting stuck on my very first steps with Pinegrow. After EArnoud could clarify for me, which the Theme Folder is (after I found that a bit confusing in the Freelancer/OlafPineson tutorial), I’m still stuck at Step 2 of the same tutorial. The problem is: After I’ve put in all the right details in the fields of the “Wordpress site” window, and click on “Wordpress \> Export the theme”, I get a pop-up window that says: “Error - Exporting too many files”. I’ve tried the same setups now on two computers (one where I’ve got the license, another one with a free trial) on different local servers, using MAMP, Local by Flywheel and Xampp, and always get the same error: “Error - Exporting too many files”. How is that? Where do I go wrong? I have not done any of the things suggested by the error message. ![Pinegrow-Error-Exporting-too-many-files](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/pinegrow/original/2X/4/46cddea0077941d84af27a752e80dcd84eaf9122.jpeg) The amount of files mentioned there (more than 14MB/1673 files) is what the folder of the source files (Freelancer by StartBootstrap) contains, and (to my eyes) everything looks just like in the tutorial. I started this question again with “Elementary …” because I think it’s probably something so simple that only PG beginners like me can get wrong … Pls. help! Thx! ---
**Author:** ![Carol](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/carol/32/2089_2.png) [@Carol](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Carol)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/elementary-question-about-exporting-too-many-files-error/3015/2 "2019-05-21T18:51:33Z")
I’d like to add that I did try to click the button “No, that’s what I want. Proceed with export!” anyway TWICE. I just didn’t mention it before, because I thought, the files had got exported to the wrong folder as a result of me entering the wrong details the first time around. HOWEVER, to me at least, the same wrongful thing (I’m sure it’s wrong?) happens when I put in the right details: = everything from the source folder gets exported to a new folder “\_pgexport” inside that same source folder - that is the project folder, NOT THE THEME FOLDER. Here’s a picture of the details I entered in WP ACTIONS FOR \ , with the project folder path at the top of the frame: ![pinegrow-pinetestolaf-snapshot_20190520](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/pinegrow/original/2X/f/fedb332add6b00bae59548bf9045e226c9877b8e.jpeg) So: What reason should there have been for saying it’s TOO MANY FILES? Another funny thing: I took that snapshot yesterday (couldn’t upload it in one post, as I’m a beginner without the rights to do so). Today, I wanted to take another one (after I’d reinstalled WP, due to some changes), and try export again … but all the fields for entering details under " WP ACTIONS FOR \" were gone! … very same thing on my other laptop (where I’m using Local by Flywheel, and a trial versin of PG) and had made no changes to the WP installation … So as this may be a bug, I’ll be sending you these questions also by e-mail. I’ve paid for Pinegrow, and I want to get to work with it now, but so far … no headway. For now, I’m getting back to coding the WP theme I must get finished this week manually again. ---
**Author:** ![Carol](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/carol/32/2089_2.png) [@Carol](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Carol)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/elementary-question-about-exporting-too-many-files-error/3015/3 "2019-05-22T18:44:24Z")
I gave it another try today, deleted all previous attempts and started fresh, this time with some more success. The same Error message came up as well, but when I checked the source AND theme folder, the files were there - in both folders … they’d got exported to both of them … I’m a beginner (with PG, not WP) and I don’t know, if that’s how it’s supposed to be (backup to source, yes, but export too?) … I believe I’d checked both yesterday, too, but as I didn’t make a snapshot, I can’t definitely say … I’ll get back with more or final results when I have them. ---
**Author:** ![Terry44](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/terry44/32/175_2.png) [@Terry44](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Terry44)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 3:47am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/elementary-question-about-exporting-too-many-files-error/3015/4 "2019-05-30T03:47:38Z")
You may have better luck posting this to the Wordpress section of the forum. I do not use wordpress so I can not help you.