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Getting the following error when using JIRA Import: There was an error parsing the entities.xml file: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x7) was found in the CDATA section.

Rafael E. Santos
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July 24, 2016

Getting the following error when using JIRA Import: There was an error parsing the entities.xml file: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x7) was found in the CDATA section.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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July 24, 2016

You'll need to remove the broken data - my guess is that you were running the source JIRA with a MySQL backend.  See https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/removing-invalid-characters-from-xml-backups-12079.html for the easiest fix.

Rafael E. Santos
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July 24, 2016

Thanks! I was able to resolve this issue.

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December 15, 2016

Rafael - did you use the instructions from Nic or did you resolve it some other way?

 

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October 9, 2019

Thanks @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- . The Atlassian KB was helpful.

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