# Modeler - import creates a bunch of empty objects in the editor

**URL:** <https://forum.flowable.org/t/modeler-import-creates-a-bunch-of-empty-objects-in-the-editor/3915>\
**Category:** Flowable Designer\
**Created:** [May 20, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/modeler-import-creates-a-bunch-of-empty-objects-in-the-editor/3915 "2019-05-20T18:20:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![ericmandm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4bbf92/32.png) [@ericmandm](https://forum.flowable.org/u/ericmandm)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/modeler-import-creates-a-bunch-of-empty-objects-in-the-editor/3915/1 "2019-05-20T18:20:22Z")

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When I import a .bpmn20.xml file that was previously exported from the Flowable-modeler, the ID, name, and description are and the ‘overview’ of the process shows all of the elements but only some of the names of the items. However, when I go to the graphical editor, there are only a bunch of empty objects stacked on top of each other in the top-left corner of the diagram. The property page for a selected object does not have any information about the item.

I did not make any manual edits to the exported xml.

The version is ‘recent’… I just installed the docker ‘all-in-one-postgres’ application on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu Linux instance over this last weekend. I needed to move the database files to a new ‘data’ drive instead of the smaller boot volume and I do not yet have the modeler properly looking for the new location (I’m a bit of a Linux novice). In any case, since I had the exported bpmn from before the db move, I thought I could just re-import it… but it is not working correctly.

Any thoughts are appreciated.  
Eric-