Neo4j Desktop Terminal - How to Load a Dump File into a Local Database

[elaine_rosenber (Elaine Rosenberg)]

I put quotes around the path to the db because my path had spaces in it which java didn't like.

In this community post, there is an example for Windows. I noticed that in this post, Dan suggests copying the dump file to a simpler location to use for the from value. He also changes directory to the bin directory to execute the load.

Failed to dump a database in Neo4j Desktop 4.3.5

I think you're running into a desktop issue unique to windows. The easiest workaround is: 1 - Stop the database. 2 - Open a terminal window for the database you want to dump. [image] 3 - Dump the database using the neo4j-admin command with the dump option: bin\neo4j-admin dump --verbose --database=neo4j --to=C:\dbdumps\mydb.dmp 4 - Use the neo4j-admin load option to restore to the database .\neo4j-admin load --from=C:\dbdumps\mydb.dmp --database=mydb --force neo4j-admin doc