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Nope... still same error; I will revert the change in the php.ini file... as that had no impact it seems!
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Try #5: This time, with Views caching disabled, because upon inspecting the import, it turns out that it has error'd out on the caching table each time:
So on the live site, we will not only disable Views caching, but also clear out the cache overall and then export the DB:
As can be seen, Views caching is not disabled... so let's disable it...
Alright, let's re-export and then import again, and see how it fares this time...
Prior to importing, need to drop the half-imported DB:
Alright... we get confirmation that prep DB been dropped... let's import the database again...
Let's check where it stopped...
Yep... it's the same table that is causing the import problem... each failed import has stopped at cache_menu — more research time!