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There is a way to do this, but steps are slightly technical. I think this was already covered on this forum before under moving to different hosting, but steps are similar.

1. Back up your store and export your database with phpmyadmin to your local computer

2. Move your abantecart folder into different location (do not delete)

3. Install new AbanteCart copy.

4. Import database from your local file into new database replacing all tables
NOTE: If you had problem in your database in prior installation, problem will be copied. You might need to so selective import.

5. Copy resources folder (images, downloads, new extensions if you have any) from older AbanteCart folder to new.
Note: make sure that all files and folders in resources folder have 777 permissions.

6. Copy SALT line from old system/config.php to new file

Now you can access your site and admin with older site users and passwords.
Once confirmed that all is working on new site, you can remove older folder.

thank you so much for sharing a guide lines...!