diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 566af8a..b78ac93 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 - Install requirements `pip install -r requirements.txt`
 - `cp example.env .env` 
 - Edit `.env` and add creds for the production, test or development server you'll retrieve the data from. 
-- Execute dump to retrieve base data: `env $(cat example.env) python ./confdump.py dump -o mydata INSTANCEPATH` where INSTANCEPATH is something like https://crm.dev.caat.org.uk/.
+- Execute dump to retrieve base data: `env $(cat .env) python ./confdump.py dump -o mydata INSTANCEPATH` where INSTANCEPATH is something like https://crm.dev.caat.org.uk/.
 - **IMPORTANT!!** - If you sourced the data from live, you must delete the `.env` file or delete the creds from inside it. If you leave them in it will negate the whole purpose of having this conf dump utility, which is to provide a way of creating a local site without any sensitive data.
-- If your civicrm is in a docker container, load data into running local instance with: `confdump.py mysql -i mydata/ -p 63306`
+- If your civicrm is in a docker container, load data into running local instance with: `python confdump.py mysql -i mydata/ -p 63306`
 - Otherwise use `confdump.py mysql -i mydata/ --host=<host> --db=<db> --user=<user> --password=<password>`
 - Clear the cache in CiviCRM: 
   * DOCKER: `make shell`, and then inside the shell `cd /app; ./vendor/bin/drush cc all`
diff --git a/confdump.py b/confdump.py
index db62370..a5a6f68 100644
--- a/confdump.py
+++ b/confdump.py
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ DUMP_TRIVIAL = ["FinancialType",
                 "CustomGroup",
                 "OptionGroup",
                 "OptionValue",
-                "Domain"]
+                "Domain",
+                "SavedSearch"]
 
 
 # "ContributionPage", needs payment processors & payment_processor column formatted correctly.
@@ -64,7 +65,8 @@ LOAD_TRIVIAL = ["FinancialType",
                 "OptionGroup",
                 "OptionValue",
                 "Domain",
-                "Contact"]
+                "Contact",
+                "SavedSearch"]
 
 WEIRD_LIST = [
     ("civicrm_contact", "contact_sub_type"),
@@ -119,6 +121,8 @@ def array_to_weird_array(val: List) -> str:
 
     return '"\x01' + ('\x01'.join([str(x) for x in val])) + '\x01"'
 
+def value_to_php_serialized(val: Any) -> str:
+    return "'{}'".format(mysql.escape_string(phpserialize.dumps(val).decode()).decode())
 
 def python_value_to_sql(val: Any) -> str:
     """
@@ -135,7 +139,7 @@ def python_value_to_sql(val: Any) -> str:
         # weird list serialization
         return "'" + ','.join([str(x) for x in val]) + "'"
     if (type(val) == dict):
-        return "'{}'".format(mysql.escape_string(phpserialize.dumps(val).decode()).decode())
+        return value_to_php_serialized(val)
     return "'{}'".format(mysql.escape_string(val).decode())
 
 
@@ -149,6 +153,8 @@ def dict_to_insert(table: str, objdict: Dict) -> str:
         # any weird array we have to process here if there are others
         if (table, col) in WEIRD_LIST:
             values.append(array_to_weird_array(objdict[col]))
+        elif table == "civicrm_saved_search" and col == "form_values":
+            values.append(value_to_php_serialized(objdict[col]))
         else:
             values.append(python_value_to_sql(objdict[col]))
     return "REPLACE INTO {} ({}) VALUES ({});".format(table, ",".join(columns), ",".join(values))