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Large CSV imports time out or stop partway

Large CSV files hang, time out or stop partway, and the importer cannot handle thousands of rows reliably.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 30 November 2015 · last reported 23 November 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners trying to load big spreadsheets into CSV Importer report that the process stalls on files of around 90 MB, returns a proxy or remote server error on a file of about 40,000 posts, and leaves only around 1,000 records in place.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.