Neo4j community Linux version - error during neo4j-admin database load

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Hi,
I downloaded community edition on https://neo4j.com/deployment-center/?gdb-selfmanaged&community ( neo4j-community-2026.02.3-unix.tar.gz) and installed in ubuntu.

I found community edition supports one database and upload when the neo4j server is offline.

My current exported dump file is generated from neo4j desktop recently.

Is there any way to export dump file to load linux community edition?

I got an error like the below:
How to resolve this issue of uploading dump file ?

neo4j@user01-400TDA-400SDA:~/data/dump$ neo4j status

Command Failed
Neo4j is not running.

neo4j@user01-400TDA-400SDA:~/data/dump$ neo4j-admin database load neo4j --from-path=/home/neo4j/data/dump --overwrite-destination=true
Done: 66 files, 1.503MiB processed in 0.058 seconds.
Failed to load database 'neo4j': Block format detected for database neo4j but unavailable in this edition.
Load failed for databases: 'neo4j'

Command Failed
Load failed for databases: 'neo4j'

Block format detected for database neo4j but unavailable in this edition.

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Hi @dyim :slight_smile:

Depending of the Neo4j edition, the store format is different: Store formats - Operations Manual

On Neo4j Desktop, when creating an instance, databases use the block format, while in Community Edition, it is the aligned format. That’s why you have an error, you can’t upload a database using block format into a Neo4j Community instance.

So you need to change the store format of your database before doing the backup: Migrate a database - Operations Manual

Best regards,
Cobra

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@Cobra Thank you for the clarification about the format!! It helps a lot.

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Happy to hear that, can we close this topic as solutioned? :slight_smile:

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Yes. Thank you.

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