# Troubles moving from XenForo to Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubles-moving-from-xenforo-to-discourse/266060>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Created:** [April 8, 2020, 5:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubles-moving-from-xenforo-to-discourse/266060 "2020-04-08T05:25:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![007](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/007/32/175794_2.png) [@007](https://meta.discourse.org/u/007)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/troubles-moving-from-xenforo-to-discourse/266060/2 "2020-04-09T16:54:45Z")

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Ok, I had a full post submitted here but I removed it because as I dig into this more, I realized that I had a serious misunderstanding of how dockers work with the Discourse install. My previous post would have confused people because, basically I didn’t know what I was talking about. 😂

I was adding the import files manually to /var/discourse/ directory when I should have been looking for them within the docker. A clear mistake looking back at it, but I was pretty confused at the time. That could be more clear in the instructions, but I managed to figured that out and solve my own problem.

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