# Migrating vBulletin 5 database - Import attachments errors about attachment extension

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**Category:** Migration\
**Tags:** vbulletin5\
**Created:** [July 6, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-vbulletin-5-database-import-attachments-errors-about-attachment-extension/315235 "2024-07-06T13:53:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 11:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-vbulletin-5-database-import-attachments-errors-about-attachment-extension/315235/18 "2024-07-11T11:14:38Z")

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> [@RGJ](#):
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> these tags are only for positioning them within the post

I thought that I’d seen that sometimes the database linked them to the post and sometimes the bbcode did, and I guess sometimes they both do? And sometimes they live in the database and sometimes they are external files (but i might be remembering some other system on that).

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