# How to disable the 'embed\_truncate' setting

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 22, 2016, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988 "2016-08-22T09:34:36Z")\
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You can disable it in the admin section at any time. However, that won’t update posts that were already imported. The only solution to that is to reimport them via the rails console.

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