# Images imported from phpBB have artefact lines
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-imported-from-phpbb-have-artefact-lines/329319
**Category:** Migration
**Tags:** phpbb
**Created:** [October 4, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-imported-from-phpbb-have-artefact-lines/329319 "2024-10-04T08:37:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@LSudo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LSudo)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-imported-from-phpbb-have-artefact-lines/329319/1 "2024-10-04T08:37:52Z")
Running a test to import an incredibly old community from phpBB to Discourse. The import happens, but a lot of the images ended up with artefact lines across them or were it seems had a poor compression.
This particular community requires high quality images. Is there a way to control how images are imported into discourse?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-imported-from-phpbb-have-artefact-lines/329319/2 "2024-10-04T16:23:42Z")
There are settings that control the compression. Also, the compressed images should allow seeing the full resolution image of you click them.
And also, also, it’s likely that there are still processes queued to process those images, so what you’re setting might not be what you’ll get. You can look at /sidekiq to see the queue.
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### Author:  [@LSudo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LSudo)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-imported-from-phpbb-have-artefact-lines/329319/3 "2024-10-04T16:40:02Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> There are settings that control the compression.
Mind giving me a direction to look into docs for that?
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> You can look at /sidekiq to see the queue.
In my first test migration, sidekiq showed everything as processed and nothing in queue.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-imported-from-phpbb-have-artefact-lines/329319/4 "2024-10-04T17:59:11Z")
> [@LSudo](#):
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> Mind giving me a direction to look into docs for that?
Maybe here:
```plaintext
https://myforurm.us/admin/site_settings/category/files?filter=image
```
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### Author:  [@LSudo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LSudo)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-imported-from-phpbb-have-artefact-lines/329319/5 "2024-10-04T18:10:28Z")
I may not have explained myself clearly enough. The image issues I am seeing are what happens to the images after importing from phpbb. Would the import process have any configuration settings for images during the import process.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-imported-from-phpbb-have-artefact-lines/329319/6 "2024-10-04T18:12:30Z")
If it happens after they are imported, those are the settings.
If they get broken **when** they are imported, then it could be an issue with the script or your environment. You can do stuff like check the images that are on the filesystem before they are imported–or are they in the database?
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### Author:  [@LSudo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LSudo)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-imported-from-phpbb-have-artefact-lines/329319/7 "2024-10-04T18:41:50Z")
All files on the system. This particular forum phpbb forum has 122,667 images. They do look okay on the current phpbb. Hence my curiosity about if the import\_phpbb3.sh had any specific extra commands or things to modify how images were handled during the import. 🙂