Title: Replacement instead adding duplicates
Last modified: October 5, 2016

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# Replacement instead adding duplicates

 *  Resolved [Nick52](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nick52/)
 * (@nick52)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-instead-adding-duplicates/)
 * Hi!
    Smth goes wrong! Instead replacing existing values it creates duplicates
   of fields with new values from csv-file! How it s possible?! I had only 110 posts(
   custom tax)! In 1 post for 1 custom field was 1 value! As the result for 110 
   feilds were 110 values in 110 posts BUT after importing somne posts for several
   times with same id, I have 328 values for 110 posts! how?! how replace it now?!

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 *  Thread Starter [Nick52](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nick52/)
 * (@nick52)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-instead-adding-duplicates/#post-8254685)
 * > Bets just to avoid this happening – do not reuse taxonomy values
 * it is not the solution 🙁
 *  Plugin Author [Jason Judge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judgej/)
 * (@judgej)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-instead-adding-duplicates/#post-8256902)
 * I’m going to ask the same question I ask most people: could you send me an example
   of the file, or part of a file, that causes this problem so I can reproduce it.
 * What kind of fields are being duplicated? Custom fields?
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [Jason Judge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judgej/).
 *  Plugin Author [Jason Judge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judgej/)
 * (@judgej)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-instead-adding-duplicates/#post-8256935)
 * Try version 0.6.0 just released. That version treats all custom fields as unique,
   so no longer creates additional fields if they already exist, but updates those
   fields instead.
 *  Thread Starter [Nick52](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nick52/)
 * (@nick52)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-instead-adding-duplicates/#post-8263617)
 * [http://dropmefiles.com/stxGk](http://dropmefiles.com/stxGk) (File s available
   for next week)
    I ve already cleared 10 544 values of cf in phpmyadmin manually.
   And reload it all (just about 2 500 values) I’ll test new version later with 
   thumbs. will see 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Jason Judge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judgej/)
 * (@judgej)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-instead-adding-duplicates/#post-8268878)
 * Any luck?
 *  Plugin Author [Jason Judge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/judgej/)
 * (@judgej)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-instead-adding-duplicates/#post-8291458)
 * I’ll close this as fixed, but do reopen it if the problem of duplicate custom
   field values still persists.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replacement-instead-adding-duplicates/#post-8291458)
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