diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0434b21ac7..52ddd09dca 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # QOwnNotes Changelog
 
+## 23.9.6
+- an issue with duplicate imported media files and attachments when importing notes
+  from Evernote was fixed (for [#2859](https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/issues/2859))
+
 ## 23.9.5
 - an issue with importing the content of notes from Evernote with the `evernote-export4`
   format was fixed (for [#2856](https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/issues/2856))
diff --git a/src/dialogs/evernoteimportdialog.cpp b/src/dialogs/evernoteimportdialog.cpp
index 977ee654b9..9262dfa33c 100644
--- a/src/dialogs/evernoteimportdialog.cpp
+++ b/src/dialogs/evernoteimportdialog.cpp
@@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ Note EvernoteImportDialog::parseNote(QXmlStreamReader &xml, bool importMetaData)
     QString content;
     QStringList tagNames;
     _metaDataTableText.clear();
+    _mediaFileDataHash.clear();
+    _attachmentFileDataHash.clear();
 
     xml.readNext();