import action is used to import content, previously exported by another instance of the module (same version) into a xml file.

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This import/export seemed to me to be more like some sort of local backup/restore. I too was searching for a real import/export, expecting it to be similar to installing extensions (in DNN7) or even dragging and dropping them in like you can do with the site icon.

The somewhat old-fashioned "save to a folder on the server and use FTP" just didn't feel right. Especially because I could only overwrite existings and couldn't get my new file to show up in the list.

Until somebody pointed me out that DNN needs to synchronize files before they show up in the lists. I have to say that was unexpected.
There is a "synchronize files" button for that in the file manager and a background-job which doesn't seem to run often enough to be usefull in this situation.