Large RIS import

Hello all,

I am importing around 20,000 records from RIS into a new Zotero library. It seems that the import stops randomly, sometimes after a few 100, sometimes after a few 1000 records.

It doesn't seem to be to do with specific records - For example, if I remove the start of the RIS, up to a point BEFORE the last imported record, I can restart the import and it runs across the previous 'break point'.

Enabling debugging really slows down the import process, so it's hard to see what's going on. (e.g. Zotero crashes when trying to view to view the log, or is very very slow when I leave the log open).

The "Import ... Importing" window has three buttons at the bottom (cancel, go back, continue) that are greyed out. The progress bar doesn't seem to work.

Any thoughts?
Bjoern

  • edited November 3, 2018
    Oddly, this may be one of the problems:

    TY - JOUR
    TI - This item imports
    Y1 - 2008
    LA - de
    L1 - {{http}}://www.somewhere.org/notURLenc.pdf
    ER -
    TY - JOUR
    TI - This item does not import
    Y1 - 2008
    LA - de
    L1 - {{http}}://www.somewhere.org/URLenc%E4.pdf
    ER -

    (Remove the {{ and }} - that's jsut for forum formatting...)

    The progress bar does appear, but only goes half-way, then the import gets stuck.
    Bjoern
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