Import fails because "Dates Conflict"

[GeorgBNM]

Hi Plausible team,

Had to go with an alternative Plausible installation for more than one week for reasons. Now just want to import those numbers into the “normal” Plausible installation (both docker).

The data does not overlap, but Plausible thinks it was so:

“Dates Conflict”
The dates 2024-11-24 to 2024-12-02 overlap with dates we've already imported and cannot be used for new imports.

Any idea, how to combine both data together?

Thanks in advance! 🙏

Best,
Georg

[ruslandoga]

👋 @GeorgBNM

You can delete the data for that date range from your "normal" Plausible installation and then it would probably work.

[GeorgBNM]

I see.

So, will you solve this “problem” with a future update?

[ruslandoga]

I don't know of any plans to change the exports/imports logic right now. Sorry.

[GeorgBNM]

Thanks for your effort, @ruslandoga!

But working like this, the import logic seems not feasible, right?

Best,
Georg

[ruslandoga]

I agree. But I think the idea was that the "native stats" (i.e. recorded by Plausible) are dominant and the imports are secondary and are only for the data that was recorded before switching to Plausible, like as if someone had been using Google Analytics since 2013 and then switched to Plausible in 2024, they would be able to import 2013 till 2024. The ability to fill in the holes in data that has already been recoded by Plausible (in your case that's all data after 2022-07-26) was probably left out due to possible complications. But that's just my opinion and doesn't represent the position of the core team :)