# עזרה בהעברת קטגוריה ממופע אחד למשנהו ללא מנהל במופע המקור **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [13 באפריל,‏ 2022,‏ 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-migrating-category-from-one-instance-to-another-without-admin-on-the-source-instance/224154 "2022-04-13T12:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![aaronrsiphone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aaronrsiphone/32/256748_2.png) [@aaronrsiphone](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aaronrsiphone)\ **Post date:** [13 באפריל,‏ 2022,‏ 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-migrating-category-from-one-instance-to-another-without-admin-on-the-source-instance/224154/1 "2022-04-13T12:15:01Z")
Our team has been operating as a guest on another Discourse instance. We are standing up our own Discourse instance and would like to migrate our categories from the existing instance to the new instance. We do not have admin access to the existing server but the admins are willing to do a [category export for us](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-and-category-export-import/38930). However this export does not contain any attachments or images. We do have api access to the existing instance but only to our categories. We do have admin access on the new instance. Is it possible to migrate attachments and images using only the API for the existing instance? I was looking at the exported json and the attachment file names are different randomized strings than what is served in the browser which makes reverse engineering the API to download attachments and images not as straight forward. Even if we could download all the attachments from the existing instance I am not sure how to add them to the new instance. This [post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-are-images-and-attachments-stored/71517) makes me want to believe it is as easy as dropping them in to that location with the requirement that the filenames are identical to what is in the exported json but that doesn’t seem to work. Any Ideas? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-migrating-category-from-one-instance-to-another-without-admin-on-the-source-instance/224154)._