# Importing from phpBB

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-from-phpbb/215348>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Tags:** phpbb\
**Created:** [January 19, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-from-phpbb/215348 "2022-01-19T17:11:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joulinar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joulinar/32/251283_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Joulinar)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 11:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-from-phpbb/215348/4 "2022-02-27T11:28:54Z")

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I’m not the owner of this topic but I like to connect as I’m on same journey basically.

Currently I’m playing with the import\_phpbb3 and there I’m facing some challenges already while creating the users. I like to migrate user avatar as well, but it seems it is not working for all users. For some I’m getting following issue

```plaintext
Failed to upload avatar for user myuser: /shared/import/data/images/avatars/upload/phpbb_avatar_2.png
#<ActiveModel::Errors:0x00000055a4b3de78 @base=#<Upload id: nil, user_id: nil, original_filename: "avatar.png", filesize: 0, width: nil, height: nil, url: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil, sha1: nil, origin: nil, retain_hours: nil, extension: nil, thumbnail_width: nil, thumbnail_height: nil, etag: nil, secure: false, access_control_post_id: nil, original_sha1: nil, animated: nil, verification_status: 1, security_last_changed_at: nil, security_last_changed_reason: nil>, @errors=[#<ActiveModel::Error attribute=base, type=Sorry, the image you are trying to upload is too large (maximum dimension is 80-megapixels), please resize it and try again., options={}>]>

```

Problem seems to the png file format. Is there a way to import png files as well or do they need to be gif/jpg? `oxipng` is already installed.

```plaintext
root@DietPi4-import:/var/www/discourse# which oxipng
/usr/local/bin/oxipng
root@DietPi4-import:/var/www/discourse#

```

Regarding the password plugin. It have it activated as port of building the import container. Or does it need to be done as well on the discourse container? Is there a way to see if this has been working or would it be something user need to try out?

Many thanks in advance.

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