Template loader appears to be ignoring 3rd party app

Using Django
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Hi everyone, I’m new to Django. I am attempting to add django-import-export (4.1.1) to my admin interface in Django (5.1). I’ve followed the official documentation but I am receiving an error where the template change_list_import_export.html is not recognized:

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Looking at the template-loader post-mortem in the screenshot, Django is 1) searching my app first, then 2) attempting to go into the django template folder within my site-packages folder. It is not searching the import_export folder, which I have validated exists.

Within settings.py, I have import_export included in my INSTALLED_APPS, and APP_DIRS = true. It seems like everything is configured correctly, and I’m looking for help to understand why it’s not picking up these templates. Thanks in advance for any help!

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Please post your INSTALLED_APPS and TEMPLATES settings, and ensure that you don’t have two copies of either of them in your settings file.

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It turns out I had a second INSTALLED_APPS in my file – I’ve been using Cursor (AI Editor) and it must have snuck that in there and I didn’t realize it! I removed the second instance of it (which did not have import_export defined) and it works. Thank you!