# Importers for large forums

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/importers-for-large-forums/61681
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [April 26, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importers-for-large-forums/61681 "2017-04-26T23:42:37Z")
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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2017, 12:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importers-for-large-forums/61681/5 "2017-04-28T12:13:19Z")

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> [@zogstrip](#):
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> `rake import:ensure_consistency`

This is looks interesting! Is this task safe to run on an existing site?

After [some fiddling in the rails console](https://meta.discourse.org/t/re-purposing-a-discourse-installation-for-a-yearly-event/34670/17), I once ended up with an install where topic counts were wrong (e.g. an empty category claimed to have 10 topics in it) and manually wrote code to fix this (see `# update all topic counts` in the post linked above). It sounds like this rake task would probably solve issues like this 🙂

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