# Error Import CSV
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-import-csv/5886
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-import-csv/5886 "2016-02-23T12:22:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Waremidia](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Waremidia)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-import-csv/5886/1 "2016-02-23T12:22:59Z")
I'm the Next Error importing CSV lead contacts
1 created , merged 0 , 5790 ignored
ERROR
"The number of data columns is more than the number of columns header ( the first row)"
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### Author:  [@Waremidia](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Waremidia)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-import-csv/5886/2 "2016-02-23T12:22:59Z")
I’m the Next Error importing CSV lead contacts
1 created , merged 0 , 5790 ignored
ERROR
“The number of data columns is more than the number of columns header ( the first row)”
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### Author:  [@lewisone](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lewisone)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-import-csv/5886/3 "2017-06-15T13:05:10Z")
Hopefully you figured this out before a year later, but Here is what I figured out to solve this.
I noticed on my csv file that my header was named and in the file had a few commas after the email like this:
name
[email@email.com](mailto:email@email.com),
[email@email.com](mailto:email@email.com),
So I added comas after my header like this as a placeholder for the missing information
name, \<—changed
[email@email.com](mailto:email@email.com),
[email@email.com](mailto:email@email.com),
This imported all the contacts perfectly.
I hope this helps.