# Parent message doesn't exist

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-message-doesnt-exist/141746>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Created:** [February 16, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-message-doesnt-exist/141746 "2020-02-16T15:59:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/parent-message-doesnt-exist/141746/9 "2020-02-18T12:54:14Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> And it’s doing exactly what the name of the function suggests, it’s looking for the topic\_id by finding the import\_id (which I assume is the message ID in this case} in a topic custom field (or maybe a post custom field?).

Looking where? Is topic\_id the subject?

> [@pfaffman](#):
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> You can try looking at the database and see if the parent message is getting imported and if it has a `import_id` topic/post custom field.

By ‘database’ do you mean index.db? By ‘imported’ do you mean entered in to the email table of index.db? Yes, it is there. But no column called ‘import\_id’.

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