# Data Migration from old Jive Forum (Version 5.0.4)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-migration-from-old-jive-forum-version-5-0-4/52490
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 4, 2016, 10:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-migration-from-old-jive-forum-version-5-0-4/52490 "2016-11-04T10:18:08Z")
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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-migration-from-old-jive-forum-version-5-0-4/52490/3 "2016-11-10T18:53:29Z")

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Not sure about Jive version because what I received from customer was several CSV files as data dump.

@alibaba99 You should look at this excellent Jive migration documentation by @MikhailVink:

> [@Migrate a Jive Clearspace forum to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-jive-clearspace-to-discourse/36761):
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> Recently we’ve successfully migrated from Jive Clearspace platform to the Discourse for [Kotlin community forums](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/) by JetBrains, so I’d like to share experience on such migration which some of you might find useful in the future. First of all, I’d like to give a round of applause to @techAPJ, an author of the original migration [script](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/script/import_scripts/jive.rb) which helped us a lot as we’ve modified it for our needs (and now glad to [contribute back](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3924) some of the changes related to images/attachments). Also [this thread](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-to-discourse-from-another-forum-software/16616) will b…

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