# IPBv4 migration script issues
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ipbv4-migration-script-issues/401561
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** migrations-tooling
**Created:** [April 26, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ipbv4-migration-script-issues/401561 "2026-04-26T17:33:46Z")
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### Author:  [@Anonymous\_Moose](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Anonymous_Moose)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ipbv4-migration-script-issues/401561/1 "2026-04-26T17:33:47Z")
It failed to import all the avatars (only imported admins) and it saw that an admin already existed on our forum so it didn’t make a new one or replace it, I thought it had merged it but it didn’t migrate any of their posts due to the fact that the user already existed. Do any of you happen to have a fix for this?
Some other issues as well:
1. Link in the content weren’t rewritten. This is likely a post-migration find/replace we need to run.
2. ~~Post reactions weren’t converted either. Mentioned in the requirements. We’ll go through those later.~~ Some were, others weren’t.
3. Some text wrapped in `` tags was dropped. [For example.]([Help Needed? Questions? - Academy - Eurth](https://eurth.org/t/help-needed-questions/4034) "For example.
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