You created an entirely new database?… is the old one still around? Can you add it to your system, upgrade it then access it?
Or back up the old one from whatever machine it’s on, and import/add/restore… whatever the language is and work like that…
Or am I missing your question at a basic level?
You can always do the clunky version… for the basic setups, save as presets… then you only need to import once…