# Import from phpbb, using S3 storage

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-from-phpbb-using-s3-storage/50980
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [October 2, 2016, 11:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-from-phpbb-using-s3-storage/50980 "2016-10-02T11:15:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2016, 11:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-from-phpbb-using-s3-storage/50980/1 "2016-10-02T11:15:51Z")

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I’ve run an import from a reasonably large (~150k posts) phpBB forum, and enabled S3 uploads before doing this. However, none of the images/attachments are working. They seem to have appeared in the S3 bucket, but they’re under the “tombstone” folder, rather than the “original” folder.

I wonder if this is because I hadn’t enabled public read access to the S3 bucket during the import.

Is there a rake task, or similar, which I can run to fix the files, or do I need to delete everything and run the importer again for another 6 hours?

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-from-phpbb-using-s3-storage/50980/2 "2016-10-10T13:54:00Z")

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How are they referenced (ie. what URL is used) in the posts?
