use Export Media Library to download ONLY THE ORIGINALS (no thumbnails – this is what this plugin does).
I have found the blogvault server (from a BV staging) works more reliably than pressable.
use add from server to upload ONLY THE ORIGINALS (the thumbnails are created when the add from server is done)
You will have to do this on a per month basis, but it’s not hard. If some months already have items with thumbnails, MAKE SURE NOT TO ADD THE THUMBNAILS to the media library. They have an x in their file name in the notation of the size. Do a find on the page for x, exclude those, and make sure you aren’t excluding something where the x doesn’t indicate size.
when importing blog posts, DO NOT pull over images
just change the image path in the xml file before uploading to point to the dev server.
