limit to number of imports in a file?

rramsey

I didn't see anything in the docs, but I'm having problems importing a large number of sites.

I have a user with 3,300 and change citations that she put together in Excel. I was able to export that to csv and then use php to build an rdf file. If I try to import the whole file, I get an error that the file type is not supported. I'm in the middle of doing the import 200 records at a time, and so far no problem. I'm going to slowly increase that to see if the number of records is the problem.

There's probably an odd character in record 3,157 that's killing it. :)

adamsmith

There is no general limit on the number of items you can import/export at the same time, though a very large number of items, can, due to the way Zotero creates these, fill up your memory (and then result in an error). But that would not get you a "file type not supported" error, so likely there actually is something in one of the entries.
Instead of going in steps, you could split the file in half and narrow it down much faster that way.

rramsey

It ended up being a little from column a, a little from column b. I tried 1,000 at a time, and that didn't work. But chunking it into 250 item bites worked.

But I also found that there's a length limit for descriptions and that the "&" character can cause problems. But it's all in now. whew.