How to import a live Drupal site into Acquia Drupal Dev Desktop? I would like to make some major changes to our live Drupal website. I'd prefer to do it in a safe local development environment on my laptop. What are the steps/process to exporting a live Drupal 7 and importing it into the Acquia Drupal Dev Desktop?
First, use the Backup and Migrate module to create a copy of the database. Then download all the Drupal site files to your machine as well.

You can set up a local version by using the import option Acquia Drupal Dev Desktop instead of creating a new site and importing the Drupal files you just downloaded. 

Then use the Backup and Migrate module again on the local site to synchronise the database.