Help moving project attachments to another Jira instance

[James Malgieri]

6/11/20 Amazing: 77 views and no takers. I hoped someone from Atlassian would chime in...not even @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- replied.  I was sure Nic would have an answer.

2 days after my post: Any ideas at all? Is this a stupid question? Am I doing something dumb?

Jira Server 8.9.0 on Win10

I’m exporting a Jira project w/attachments from 1 instance and importing into another Jira instance. Both projects have the same name: Project_2 and Key: PROJ02.

I copied the attachments file from the source instance location and pasted it into the exact location on the destination instance:

C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Application Data\Jira\data\attachments\PROJ02

The complete path to the individual attachments is:

C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Application Data\Jira\data\attachments\PROJ02\10000\PROJ02-2

where you will find attachments 10102, 10103 and 10104

The contents from the unedited csv export file for 10102 is:

06/03/2020 02:19 PM;jmalgieri;proj02 attach 5.txt;http://localhost:8080/secure/attachment/10102/proj02+attach+5.txt

I’ve tried editing the cell to be

06/03/2020 02:19 PM;jmalgieri;proj02 attach 5.txt;file://10102/proj02%20attach%205.txt

and everything in between but I cannot get the attachments to link up/import into the project.  I either get a parsing error or an error telling me the file “cannot be found or it is unreadable”

Any help will be greatly appreciated.