Powershell import-spweb fails with "parent does not exist" error.

Question

So, I have a sp 2010 site at http://myfarm/sites/it/d22 and I want to copy the contents to
http://myfarm/sites/bb/d62 .
I perform
Export-SPWeb -Identity  http://myfarm/sites/it/d22  -Path d:\temp\d22 
-IncludeUserSecurity –IncludeVersions All  -NoFileCompression –Verbose
and then I perform
import-spweb -identity http://myfarm/sites/bb/d62 -path d:\temp\d22   -includeusersecurity  -nofilecompression -verbose -force
It runs for 4-5 minutes and then produces the error:
[Folder] []   Error: The file  cannot be imported because its parent /sites/bb/d22/ADMIN does not exist.
[Folder] []   Error: The file  cannot be imported because its parent /sites/bb/d22/ADMIN does not exist.
FatalError: The file  cannot be imported because its parent /sites/bb/d22/ADMIN does not exist.
Progress: Import did not complete.
Finish Time: 6/11/2014 8:59:23 AM.
Duration: 00:03:40
Finished with 0 warnings.
Finished with 3 errors.
Log file generated:
        d:\temp\d22\import.log
Import-SPWeb : The file  cannot be imported because its parent /sites/bb/d22/ADMIN does not exist.
At line:1 char:13
+ import-spweb <<<<  -identity
http://myfarm/sites/bb/d62 -path d:\temp\d22   -includeusersecurity
  -nofilecompression -verbose -force
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...CmdletImportWeb:SPCmdletImportWeb) [Import-SPW
   eb], SPException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletImportWeb
Of course bb/d22/ADMIN does not exist - d22 exists under sites/it . And Admin should be part of the export of d22 that should be created if the process completes.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here?

Answer 1

http://www.livingonthecloud.net/2010/05/exporting-and-importing-sharepoint.html
This error is not helpful and for us the problem was permission related. We had used users (albeit domain admin accounts) to export and import the data that were different from the site collection administrators. To fix we had to do the following:
Make sure the site collection administrator is the same on both the source and destination servers.
When running the export and import, make sure you are running the stsadm commands as the site collection administrator. This ensures the permissions are aligned and the import should work.
stsadm Import error: The 'ASPXPageIndexMode' attribute is not declared
Not sure what the cause of this error is, but we found a fix online:
To get round it I edited C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML\DeploymentManifest.xsd on the destination server:
under section
   <!-- SPWeb definition -->
I added the following.
<xs:attribute name="ASPXPageIndexMode" type="xs:string" use="optional"></xs:attribute>
<xs:attribute name="NoCrawl" type="xs:boolean" use="optional"></xs:attribute>
<xs:attribute name="CacheAllSchema" type="xs:boolean" use="optional"> </xs:attribute>
<xs:attribute name="AllowAutomaticASPXPageIndexing" type="xs:boolean" use="optional"></xs:attribute>