Importing Neo4J Database from GrapheneDB to Local

I have created an app that uses a Neo4J database. I developed a local instance in Windows, purchased some space on a development GrapheneDB server, migrated my database, and had a few users test out my app. There are a few issues in my application that I wish to debug. I want to do development on a copy of their data only on my local instance of Neo4j. GrapheneDB offers the ability to download a graph.db.zip file that contains the contents of the database. How do I import this file using Neo4j desktop? It appears Neo4J desktop only imports csv files. I tried overwriting the graph.db folder with the contents of the zip file and my database doesn't appear in my Neo4J desktop. How do I import my GrapheneDB to my local?

Solution

Two approaches that are probably fairly similar under the hood:

Use neo4j-admin

Create a local graph in Neo4j Desktop
- I used the same graph name as I'd used in Graphene
- Make sure the database version is the same as is in Graphene
Do not start the database yet but instead click Manage, then the Terminal tab
Unzip the contents of the graphdb.zip file somewhere local - say, C:\Temp\graphdb for this example
Run neo4j-admin restore --from="C:\temp\graphdb"
Start the database using Neo4j Desktop
You should have a working database

File copying by hand

Create a local graph in Neo4j Desktop
- I used the same graph name as I'd used in Graphene
- Make sure the database version is the same as is in Graphene
Do not start the database yet but instead click Manage, then Open Folder
Enter the databases folder - it should be empty
Create a new folder called graph.db (the name needs to be exact)
Copy the contents of the graphdb.zip file into the new graph.db folder
Start the database using Neo4j Desktop
You should have a working database

I tested this on a graph with only one node, but it did work - I suspect the database version matching is pretty vital.