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> On Dec 7, 2:53 pm, David Cramer <dcra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Real quick (and feel free to email me directly), what are you passing as the "parent" value (if any) in the comments?

> > We made a change recently address a race condition with children being imported before parents (and thus messing up the tree), which
> > could have affected this.

> > --
> > David Cramer

> > twitter.com/zeeg
> > disqus.com/zeeg

> > On Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM, BenMc wrote:
> > > I am currently working on migrating comments from two sites into
> > > Disqus. One is small (less than 10,000 comments) and the other had in
> > > excess of 1.5 million. The migration is from what at best could be
> > > called a 'home grown' comment system - very basic, but not really
> > > conforming to generally accepted standards.

> > > As a result, we are exporting comments to Generic XML format for
> > > manual import into Disqus. I have been testing these imports for
> > > several weeks in test Disqus sites and had thought that I had worked
> > > out all the bugs. I have probably imported in excess of 500,000
> > > comments with relatively few issues.

> > > Today I was to finally launch the production version of the comments
> > > into a new production site. Today every import file I submit returns
> > > a long list of the same error "Unable to find parent post" - there is
> > > no detail beyond that.

> > > My XML format has not changed, we do not support nested comments, I
> > > have compared XML to previous successful imports and they match
> > > exactly.

> > > Disqus Support says they are investigating, but no real answers.

> > > The same comments have been imported multiple times in different
> > > sites, so I am wondering if this has become an issue.

> > > Any feedback, opinions or suggestions welcomed.

> > > Thank you.

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