# phpBB3 import script improvements

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb3-import-script-improvements/22935>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Tags:** phpbb\
**Created:** [December 7, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb3-import-script-improvements/22935 "2014-12-07T20:15:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/phpbb3-import-script-improvements/22935/7 "2014-12-10T09:41:15Z")

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Well, the users could be added by re-running the import script, but the already imported posts would still be assigned to system.

> [@chrisalley](#):
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> No avatars were copied across.

Did you configure the `PHPBB_BASE_DIR` variable in the import script? Then it should have copied the avatars. I’m not aware of any problems in this part of the importer.

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