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Is there a good free way of exporting a list in SharePoint 2010 and importing it into 2013.

Need to keep structure, data, attachments and other data but revisions, permissions etc not necessary.

I've seen this question which talks about extracting the powershell export file, changing the manifest, re-cabing and then importing but have not tried it yet.

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you can try this one, might work spdeploymentwizard.codeplex.com – Muhammad Raja Feb 27 at 14:54
@TimeToShine - the link you gave is for 2010 content migration. Not applicable for this question – Andrey Feb 27 at 21:07
@Andrey Thats the reason I said "it might work" :) – Muhammad Raja Feb 27 at 21:26

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I have used Gary Lapointe's utilities to move content between farms in the past. The GUIDs can change so anything tied to that, like web parts, custom features, etc.. might break. Ironically, I asked Microsoft a few weeks back if they could recommend a full fidelity way to move partial content between farms and they could not. I found that rather frightening but perhaps expected given the possible complexity in SharePoint.

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Between different versions of SharePoint? – Ryan Feb 28 at 1:12
I have not used it in that capacity directly but it should work as that tool uses its own export/import logic rather than relying on SharePoint. It should be tested in a Dev/QA environment first though. – Dave Wise Feb 28 at 16:53
I think he must actually use SharePoints built in ones with a few additions looking at the stack trace of some errors. – Ryan Feb 28 at 21:19
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Couldn't get this to work - complained about differing versions (just as the OOTB Import-SPWeb one does) and tried changing Version and Build in SystemData.xml but still didn't import correctly moss-arvit.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/… – Ryan Feb 28 at 21:20
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Have you try the Export-SPWeb and Import-SPWeb powershell commands??? I don't really know if that works but it is a posibility.

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yes - you can't export one version of SP and import to another. – Ryan Mar 6 at 14:28

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