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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions src/content/docs/docs/import-export/migrating.md
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An entry is skipped when it has no label, has no link, or its link is not safe to follow. Relative links are skipped, because they have no meaning outside the dashboard that wrote them, as are values the other dashboard resolves from its own environment.

A file with more than 5,000 entries is refused, and nothing is imported.

Stackyard reports how many apps and folders were imported, and lists what it could not import and why.

## After importing
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| `Nothing to import. The file matches your current config.` | The imported file is identical to what is already stored. |
| `Icon catalogues could not be reached` | No catalogue answered while searching. The field still takes a full URL or an upload. |
| `<file> is not a gethomepage or Dashy config.` | Only those two formats are recognised. See [Import](/docs/import-export/migrating/). |
| `<file> has too many entries to import.` | The file has more than 5,000 entries. Nothing was imported. See [Import](/docs/import-export/migrating/#what-is-skipped). |
| `(may be out of date)` | A stale reading. The last poll failed and the previous value is shown. |

## Not actually broken
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