Possible to import credentials in a running instance, with CLI?

Questions
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A query regarding the export/import Credentials options, as given here:

I exported Workflows & Credentials from my DO (docker w/ postgres) n8n instance and imported them in my local (docker w/ postgres) running instance.

Upon execution of CLI commands for import, received ‘Successfully imported’.
But, now i can see the imported workflows only and not the credentials.

Are there any other steps that need to be done, apart from the ones mentioned in the above documentation?

Thanks.

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@krynble any idea on what might he happening here?

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@shrey-42 no nothing else should be needed. But did you also import both separately? So one import command for the credentials and one for the workflows?

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@jan, that’s correct.
Tried them both, separately. Same message: “Successfully imported”.

But only workflows show up.

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Did you check if the backup-file of the credentials you are importing from contains data? If so are you sure that you use the correct import-command?

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That’s all correct.
But, in this new local instance that i’m using, i haven’t been able to persist DB data…don’t know why till now

Env.: Docker on Windows | postgresdb

Might that have something to do with the credentials import issue?

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Yes, that would be possible. But then still strange that n8n imported the workflows fine. Currently sadly then no more ideas what could be going on/wrong.

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Yeah, it might just be the issue with my local setup.
Will try with another n8n instance later.

Thanks.