# Saved Items Import/Export Json/ndjson discrepancy **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [September 17, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-items-import-export-json-ndjson-discrepancy/199834 "2019-09-17T14:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SpinDORK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spindork/32/45310_2.png) [@SpinDORK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SpinDORK)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-items-import-export-json-ndjson-discrepancy/199834/1 "2019-09-17T14:02:00Z")
Hi, We have a Dev and Prod copy of Kibana, our Dev is 7.1.0, our Prod is 7.2.0 The problem is when developing in Dev and exporting, we get a .json file which gives an warning when importing into Prod and nothing in Prod can be sent back to Dev. Has this been a change during the version upgrade from 7.1.0 to 7.2.0 as I cannot find anything in the changelogs specifically stating export format changed from .json to .ndjson Many thanks, Steve ---
**Author:** ![LizaD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lizad/32/51074_2.png) [@LizaD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LizaD)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-items-import-export-json-ndjson-discrepancy/199834/2 "2019-09-17T16:56:09Z")
Hi @SpinDORK, Can you give us the warning you are seeing? Thanks, Liza ---
**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-items-import-export-json-ndjson-discrepancy/199834/3 "2019-09-17T19:04:05Z")
Hi, So .json format got deprecated in 7.2.0 and we have the .ndjson format now. But .json format wont be going away for a while yet. Here is the PR for it: > Were you able to import without any problems? or were there any issues? Thanks, Bhavya ---
**Author:** ![SpinDORK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spindork/32/45310_2.png) [@SpinDORK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SpinDORK)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-items-import-export-json-ndjson-discrepancy/199834/4 "2019-09-18T11:48:27Z")
Hi, Well unfortunately some of our dashboards and visualisations were developed in Prod so we need to retroactively export them back into Dev to mirror. So when I export a dashboard from Prod and import into Dev I get this error; > Sorry, there was an error > The file could not be processed. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to give me any more information other than that. Dev --\> Prod works but not Prod --\> Dev Is there any work around for this? ---
**Author:** ![astickler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@astickler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/astickler)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-items-import-export-json-ndjson-discrepancy/199834/5 "2019-09-19T16:49:43Z")
I get the same error exporting from 7.3.1 and importing into 7.1.1 - is there a workaround please (I can't upgrade the 7.1.1 Kibana)? Thanks, Andrew ---
**Author:** ![SpinDORK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spindork/32/45310_2.png) [@SpinDORK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SpinDORK)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-items-import-export-json-ndjson-discrepancy/199834/6 "2019-09-20T09:24:51Z")
So far we've just had to rebuild the dashboards 1:1 manually. @LizaD @bhavyarm is there any workaround? ---
**Author:** ![LizaD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lizad/32/51074_2.png) [@LizaD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LizaD)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-items-import-export-json-ndjson-discrepancy/199834/7 "2019-09-26T17:35:27Z")
I checked with our dev team and they said we don't support downgrade patterns, only upgrade. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-items-import-export-json-ndjson-discrepancy/199834/8 "2019-10-24T17:35:32Z")
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