# Any ideas why the import is not working while the export is?
**URL:** https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333
**Category:** Technical Help
**Created:** [January 30, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333 "2025-01-30T16:47:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@taubers](https://community.baserow.io/u/taubers)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333/1 "2025-01-30T16:47:17Z")
### Are you using our SaaS platform ([Baserow.io](http://Baserow.io)) or self-hosting Baserow?
Self-hosted
### If you are self-hosting, what version of Baserow are you running?
I’m running the 1.30.1 version on Docker.
### If you are self-hosting, which installation method do you use to run Baserow?
I’m using Docker version 24.0.6, build ed223bc
Installed on Debian.
### What are the exact steps to reproduce this issue?
Export data of one workspace (creates ZIP file)
Import data in another workspace (importing the created ZIP file)
### Attach screenshots, videos, or logs that demonstrate the issue.
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### Author:  [@Przemek](https://community.baserow.io/u/Przemek)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333/2 "2025-01-31T11:47:52Z")
Hey @taubers
Do can you try exporting only structure and then importing it?
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### Author:  [@flow](https://community.baserow.io/u/flow)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333/3 "2025-03-26T14:09:07Z")
Hi @Przemek, I’m having the same problem as OP above. I tried both the complete workspace as well as the empty dataset - both fail due to bad signatures?
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### Author:  [@flow](https://community.baserow.io/u/flow)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2025, 10:09am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333/4 "2025-03-27T10:09:27Z")
hi @taubers, were you able to solve the issue? I seem to be stuck in a similar way! many thanks, F
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### Author:  [@taubers](https://community.baserow.io/u/taubers)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333/5 "2025-03-28T06:54:31Z")
I solved it using this (more technical) approach:
> [@Export/import database](https://community.baserow.io/t/export-import-database/1272):
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> Hi, I have installed baserow in my pre-production cluster and create some tables in a database. I’m using docker images baserow:1.10 I now install basrow in my production environment and want to migrate database from preproduction to production I tried to export each tables and import them in the production baserow but table field are lost (type , fk …) I tried to copy data from /baserow/date but the container failed to start How to migrate database from one cluster to another ?
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### Author:  [@qtld](https://community.baserow.io/u/qtld)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333/6 "2025-04-17T17:25:08Z")
Hello,
Same issue here, but I’m not sure I can do the technical solution since I’m trying to move from the baserow-hosted to the self-hosted.
Has anyone else found another solution ?
I must specify that when I’m trying to import a full Baserow workspace I have exactly the same message than above👆 but when I’m trying to import a “Structure Only” workspace i’ve got :
_Action not completed._
_Something went wrong during the import\_applications job execution._
Many thanks !
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### Author:  [@olgatrykush](https://community.baserow.io/u/olgatrykush)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333/7 "2025-04-18T13:04:02Z")
@Przemek could you please take a look here?
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### Author:  [@Przemek](https://community.baserow.io/u/Przemek)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333/8 "2025-04-18T13:22:16Z")
@flow to solve issue with bad signature you need to login as admin settings you can disable signature check
@qtld
Does that happen when you try to import this workspace into baserow too?
Do you have access to logs on your instance - depend if it’s all in one or multiple docker containers - interesting one is export worker one.
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### Author:  [@patrickg](https://community.baserow.io/u/patrickg)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/any-ideas-why-the-import-is-not-working-while-the-export-is/9333/9 "2025-05-07T00:09:13Z")
FWIW I’m having the same issue here: [Errors when trying to import a Hosted Baserow database](https://community.baserow.io/t/errors-when-trying-to-import-a-hosted-baserow-database/10043)
There seems to issues when trying to import a SaaS-hosted baserow export into a self-hosted baserow instance.