# Need help to do a migration in reverse

**URL:** <https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/need-help-to-do-a-migration-in-reverse/15260>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 28, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/need-help-to-do-a-migration-in-reverse/15260 "2022-09-28T06:32:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![German](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@German](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/German)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/need-help-to-do-a-migration-in-reverse/15260/1 "2022-09-28T06:32:30Z")

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I got this

```auto
Error: Your programs version (11) is lower than your repos (12).
[ipfs] Please update ipfs to a version that supports the existing repo, or run
[ipfs] a migration in reverse.

```

I’m trying to do that migration in reverse but I can’t understand how to do it. I downloaded the fs-repo-migrations but I can’t find the way to do that.

I have macos bigsur. I’ve read some documents but I can’t the way to do this reverse migration.

Thank you in advance.

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**Author:** ![Discordian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/discordian/32/4692_2.png) [@Discordian](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Discordian)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/need-help-to-do-a-migration-in-reverse/15260/2 "2022-09-28T20:51:47Z")

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I believe you can use [ipfs-update](https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-update) for this.

`ipfs-update revert`

I hope this works, please let me know if it does/doesn’t.

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**Author:** ![German](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@German](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/German)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/need-help-to-do-a-migration-in-reverse/15260/3 "2022-09-29T10:10:00Z")

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Hi Discordian,

Thank you for your quick response. It didn’t work for me because (I think) I’ve uninstalled many components of ipfs on my rush. I’ve started all over the whole process again to update kubo to golag 17 to be able to use the last repo.

Thank you again for your support.