The way WordPress works is that the files need to be there, but they also need to be registered in the database to be listed in the Media Library.
I don’t know the DownML Plugin, but it seems as this is only for backups, not for migrating data as you are trying.
What you apparently did is just upload those files, but WordPress doesn’t know anything about them in its database.
But in the end you do not really need that. In case the old website is still online XML Import/Export should download all the media files on import.
If the old website isn’t online any more this will get a bit more complicated. Comment if you need more help there.
Related Posts:
- Where does the Media Library live in the database?
- Failed to import Media
- WordPress Theme Options Import/Export
- One Click demo content installation feature in WordPress theme options panel
- Import and replace existing page/post content
- Migrating WP site to another URL
- How to migrate a WordPress installation from one site to another, including all images?
- How to completely export and import WordPress?
- Download/View Schema (or DTD) for XML Import
- GUID not updated on import
- Importing large data from blogger
- How to get and save WordPress content (html, css, images, videos) from a Java program?
- Update Attached Image Size after Import
- Exporting and Importing WordPress Media Libraries and Galleries
- WordPress does not import all pages and post
- Problems with WordPress Import
- In What WordPress Version Was the Import/Export Tool Introduced?
- Moving WordPress site to an existing WordPress site
- Export Users From Live Site to Import onto staging
- Import subdomain WordPress into main domain WordPress
- product export and import using xml
- Export WordPress from one domain to another domain
- Exporting by table
- Existing posts hidden after WP import
- WordPress importer – How to handle id clashes for featured images
- How to import several big Import XMLs?
- Merge two wordpress sites
- Moving 2 wordpress sites to one
- Export and import all Plugin options
- WXR? Export from Drupal 7 – import into WordPress
- WordPress Export/Import for custom options.php values?
- Python circular importing?
- What exactly does the import tool do?
- Why do I lose all the slashes, i.e., ” \ “, in my blogs when I import XML files by the WordPress Importer plug-in?
- Disabling HTML Filtering When Importing Into WordPress Multisite
- WordPress Export Import Site Navigation Menu
- Import and export links from WordPress.com to private site
- WXR import problem — not including categories
- Import Images from one self-hosted WordPress install to another
- Scrape data from a website and post it on the blog
- Importing New Posts from Live Site into Local Dev Site
- Exporting and importing my WordPress database, but none of the plugin settings are importing
- How much of my site can I recover from public_html?
- Faking the “onSave” event
- Better way to remove HTML syntax from all content
- What can I expect when moving from a hosted (WordPress.com) blog to one hosted by Page.ly
- Does WordPress Importer notify imported Users?
- WP CLI not importing media files
- Importing XML to WordPress, permalink problem
- Export / import WordPress database
- WooCommerce product taxonomies and menu export
- How do I migrate blog post images from one domain to a new one?
- Programmatically save one/any post
- How to export post meta with images in wordpress
- Export + Import = wrongly duplicated content
- Is there a way to import a folder of HTML files into the blog?
- Using WordPress Importer, how to import media only?
- How to export all content with feature images?
- Shows 1400 post published but don’t see them
- how to import a custom website into WordPress
- How to import Theme Unit Test on localhost
- Importing posts only – consequences?
- WXR xml files are being imported as a TXT files and showing up under ‘Media’
- Importer fails to import every post
- Is it possible to import several xml from different sites to another?
- Import post from XML files into custom post type programatically [closed]
- how do i import a site given that i have [domain].sql and a folder of site files? [closed]
- WordPress: Updating via Import
- create importer with importer api [closed]
- Importing a database from a custom built CMS to WordPress
- How to import media from folder as opposed from old site?
- Editing Theme and Moving Servers
- How to correctly move jquery script to external file
- Bulk Edit Media Library alt, caption, image names
- Syncing WP Database Changes Between Environments: How To Handle Merging w/o touching database
- WordPress xml import too slow
- Is there a way to export WordPress comments to a non-wordpress, HTML coded site?
- Error importing website: “There has been a critical error on your website.”
- After importing items are not displaying
- Moving website from localhost to existing website without altering existing live theme
- Moving Featured Images
- Pull specific data from CSV
- Import demo data into wordpress template
- Migrate site from WordPress multisite to another WordPress multisite
- How to do one-off import or data migration?
- WordPress import error
- Max execution time error with stream_body() in wp-includes/class-http.php
- Import from HubSpot COS into WordPress 4?
- Importing demo content from plugin
- How to import data from Mingle Forum plugin to bbPress?
- Export plugin omits many images
- Failed Media Import (importing from LIVE to local)
- Blogroll import/export with categories and descriptions
- Astra Site is not importing
- WP-all-import problems with large input file [closed]
- Export Posts Without Categories In An XML File
- How to create import option for xml
- How to export and import plugin data through WordPress tools option
- Does WordPress import export tool keeps the file hosted on the old website?
- How to add featured thumbnail into import XML using URL image?