Imported conversations from ChatGPT full of wrong forks

[Hamzehn]

What happened?

Hi and thank you for this amazing project.

I'm running into an issue where I followed the instructions on the website to import my conversations from ChatGPT into a fresh install of LibreChat locally on my Windows computer (Docker setup), and while LibreChat said it successfully imported them, almost all the chats are not really readable because they are full of forks that should not be there.

For example, I would open a chat conversation and it would show me one message at the top which is a response from ChatGPT with 30/30 displayed in the forks field. If I scroll left it would then show me my own message that prompted that response. However, it's not always in that order. Sometime it would show me the first message in the conversation first and then I would have to go "back" in the forks to see other messages. Sometimes it would show me a prompt of mine from the middle of the conversation as the last message and without any response, and then the response would be displayed if I click '<' to move back through the fork.

I'm going to try to scrub the .json file from data (the content of the messages) and see if that impacts anything at all. If it doesn't and the issue persists I can share the json here so you can try it.

Version Information

ghcr.io/danny-avila/librechat-dev latest a283dc00e48c 3 days ago 1.62GB
ghcr.io/danny-avila/librechat-rag-api-dev-lite latest 566585698235 13 days ago 1.85GB

Steps to Reproduce

1. Installed LibreChat using Docker on Windows
2. Installed and setup MeiliSearch on Windows
3. Export conversations from ChatGPT
4. Login to LibreChat locally and import conversations.json exported from previous step
5. See conversations now in the left sidebar
6. Most conversation messages are broken into forks.

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Microsoft Edge

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[danny-avila]

Thanks for your report. There is no example conversation from ChatGPT to help reproduce the issue. There are bound to be edge cases especially since ChatGPT may have updated their conversation structure since this was last updated.

[Hamzehn]

Hi @danny-avila, here is the file I'm trying to import with non-related content scrubbed out. I just created another user and imported it to verify that LibreChat imports it the same way as the original, which it does. It doesn't look like this is an edge-case related issue as pretty much all conversations have erroneous forks. You can easily spot the obvious ones when there are too many forks (in one case over 300), and when the first message is actually from GPT and not the user.

I'm not sure what might have changed in the way ChatGPT exports conversations, but it seems possible that it has broken the import from ChatGPT feature.
conversations.json

Thanks

[chrismcenteer]

I also ran into this bug, and was able to narrow it down to conversations with more than 16 messages in them. If you attempt to import both of these test files, the one with 16 messages will work and the one with 17 will be all jumbled up.

test_17_messages.json
test_16_messages.json

[chrismcenteer]

This also happens with files exported from LibreChat itself and then immediately reimported into LibreChat.

Test_Import Count.json

[danny-avila]

Thanks I will investigate this soon. In the past, similar issues were discovered and appear to be a timestamp ordering issue.

[iGerman00]

This still happens, and has happened since at least December 2024 when I first encountered the issue. Any updates?