# Is there a clean way to manually import Contacts etc. via PhpMyAdmin?

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**Created:** [September 19, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/is-there-a-clean-way-to-manually-import-contacts-etc-via-phpmyadmin/25435 "2022-09-19T09:22:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![techbill](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/techbill/32/8325_2.png) [@techbill](https://forum.mautic.org/u/techbill)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/is-there-a-clean-way-to-manually-import-contacts-etc-via-phpmyadmin/25435/5 "2022-09-19T21:05:53Z")

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Yes and no …

In PhpMyAdmin you can go to your Mautic database and select the table `Lead` then do a PhpMyAdmin export using CSV but it’ll export everything including anonymous contacts if I recalled correctly into CVS so it not exactly “clean”.

What I would do is a SQL export in PhpMyAdmin then do a fresh Mautic install on another location with a new database then do a SQL import into the fresh installation …

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