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Getting the following error when using JIRA Import: There was an error parsing the entities.xml file: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x2) was found in the CDATA section.

Ruth Struck September 8, 2016

The export was generated from JIRA server 7.2

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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September 8, 2016

This happens a lot when swapping between databases.

I would try https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/removing-invalid-characters-from-xml-backups-12079.html first

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