Title: serialization error — odd
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# serialization error — odd

 *  Resolved [Chet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chethardin/)
 * (@chethardin)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serialization-error-odd/)
 * Hey.
 * First, great plugin!
 * I got a warning that there was a serialization error in wp_options. So, I checked
   the database file that duplicator created. The string was different in the file
   than in the new database.
 * However, when I checked the old database, the string wasn’t the same as the one
   in the file. In fact, it was exactly the same as in the new database. So, the
   string in the file was wrong.
 * Is this an issue I should be concerned with?
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/)

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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serialization-error-odd/#post-4940800)
 * Hey Buster,
 * It might be a character encoding issue. Is the collation different between DBs.
   For example is one db ‘latin’ and the other ‘utf8’? Do you happen to have any
   non ANSII characters in the serialized data?
 * Thanks~
 *  Thread Starter [Chet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chethardin/)
 * (@chethardin)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serialization-error-odd/#post-4940811)
 * Hey.
 * the collation is the same. There were no non anii characters. What was added 
   were “/” around text within quotes.
 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serialization-error-odd/#post-4940818)
 * Hey Buster,
 * Yeah those for most cases should be fine because they are used everywhere in 
   the SQL file to escape nested quotes.
 * Maybe try the developer version (0.5.3) it can be found by following these instructions:
 *  -> Browse to [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicator/developers/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicator/developers/)
   -
   > Look for the section “Other Versions” -> Click on “Development Version” and
   download the zip plugin file -> Uninstall your current version and install this
   one -> Note: This is a development line version so please test in your sandbox
   first to make sure you have no issues…
 * Let me know if this solves your issue…
 * Thanks

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 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serialization-error-odd/#post-4940818)
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