# Rebuild Mautic while preserving contacts, data?

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/rebuild-mautic-while-preserving-contacts-data/12988>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/rebuild-mautic-while-preserving-contacts-data/12988 "2020-02-20T16:18:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/rebuild-mautic-while-preserving-contacts-data/12988/1 "2020-02-20T16:18:33Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is:v2.16.0  
My PHP version is: 7.2.27

**Your problem**  
My problem is:  
Pretty much ready to abandon Mautic - giving one last try to rebuild while preserving contacts and activity and data?  
Is that possible? Rebuild and preserve all data, contact, history, etc?

the latest issue with this install is when viewing a segment and attempting to sort by Last Active, the screen toggles between Last Active (which I want) but when clicking that column again, Last Active and ID column disappear and the only way to bring it back is to click on Stage.  
These errors are showing in the log:

Steps I have tried to fix the problem: