"Internal server error, cannot edit post. Cannot read property '0' of undefined"

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I’m trying to copy and paste a post over from WordPress, which I’ve attempted by copying the actual HTML code as well as by doing a straight-up copy and paste from the WordPress blog’s front end. However, both times, when I try and save the post in the Ghost editor, I get hit up with the message “Internal server error, cannot edit post. Cannot read property ‘0’ of undefined”. Might this be because there’s a null character in that post or something, or might it be due to something on Ghost’s end?

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Have you tried cutting and pasting from WordPress into a raw text file then copying from there into the Ghost editor?

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I had already tried using my code editor (Brackets) as the middle-man, as well as LibreOffice, but neither worked. But upon your suggestion I thought I’d try copy and pasting the material into an email, then to Ghost. That screwed up the formatting, but fixed the problem. Thanks for the nudge!

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Cool. Glad you got it fixed.

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@Stromfeldt are you able to share the copied content with me so I can try to track down where the error is coming from? Feel free to DM me if it’s not shareable publicly

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I have the same issue as @Stromfeldt, @Kevin

Is there any e-mail address that I can send you the dump of the row that is causing the issue? I can provide with some more details about that but too.

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This error was fixed in 2.34.0. However, DO NOT upgrade if you have any posts created in Ghost 0.x or 1.x, there’s a bug where editing posts created in those versions can result in content being lost.

We’re currently working on a hotfix, please keep an eye on the GitHub releases for the next release.

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Thanks for the reply!

I just saw in the github that a version 2.35.0 was released (my ghost is running 2.33). May I update my ghost version to see if it will fix this bug (asking this because on versions 2.33 and 2.34, there’s a bit DO NOT USE label)?

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@MuriloDelefrate yep, 2.35.0 is fine to upgrade to :+1:

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Cool!!
I’m using Docker to run ghost, so I’ll wait the the 2.35 version there (Docker - if there’s anything I could do to help you guys on that, I could do it!)