# Import Partial From 7.8 to 8.0.5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [May 28, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-partial-from-7-8-to-8-0-5/35135 "2020-05-28T18:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kaushik.shah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@kaushik.shah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kaushik.shah)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-partial-from-7-8-to-8-0-5/35135/1 "2020-05-28T18:16:01Z")
I am trying to Import One of the vision folder on 7.8 to 8.0.5. I have tried both .proj and compressed zip but nothing seems to work. In compressed zip version, I get the Import Dialog pop-up but without any windows listed as below - ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/4/46a097375904c9142558a9965cfce2b3714de426.png) ---
**Author:** ![brandon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@brandon1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brandon1)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-partial-from-7-8-to-8-0-5/35135/2 "2020-05-28T18:36:57Z")
You might just have to move the project to a development machine and upgrade the whole thing to 8.0.5. After that, just export the resources you want to move to the production environment. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-partial-from-7-8-to-8-0-5/35135/3 "2020-05-28T18:51:16Z")
Upgrading from the ‘legacy’ resource format (`.proj` files) to the current format isn’t possible piecemeal. Putting a .proj into a .zip isn’t sufficient; they use totally different mechanisms to both encode and enumerate the resources. Just import the entire project (either on your same gateway, or a new gateway as @brandon1 suggests) and then either export a partial collection of resources as a .zip, or the entire project and then import a selection. ---
**Author:** ![kaushik.shah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@kaushik.shah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kaushik.shah)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-partial-from-7-8-to-8-0-5/35135/4 "2020-05-28T18:54:53Z")
This means there is not forward or backward compatibility other than importing and exporting which would only work in the case of going from older to newer. Correct ? ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-partial-from-7-8-to-8-0-5/35135/5 "2020-05-28T19:21:02Z")
Ignition 8 absolutely is _backwards_ compatible - you can certainly use resources from 7.9, 7.7, or even older Ignition versions. If you upgrade your Ignition gateway, your resources will be automatically upgraded; or, you can export and import them freely, as long as you go to the same version or higher. I’m not sure what _else_ backwards compatibility would mean? _No_ Ignition version has ever claimed to be _forwards_ compatible; which would imply that a resource created in version X would be guaranteed to work in version X-1; i.e., resources from 8 would work in 7.9. That’s never been a goal or something we’ve worked towards, because it’s far too restrictive. ---
**Author:** ![kaushik.shah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@kaushik.shah](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kaushik.shah)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/import-partial-from-7-8-to-8-0-5/35135/6 "2020-05-28T19:59:58Z")
@paul-griffith, Yes, That is one thing why I LOVE ignition, because of the ability to not think twice before upgrading the gateway from older to a new version. What I meant is, for the small tasks such as one I mentioned, what is worth ? exporting the whole project, copying the resource I need and then deleting the rest or just being able to export the resource I need from an older version.