[ic] Trying to import 50,000 items

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> I am trying to import a catalog of roughly 50,000 items and I am finding 
> the import from the admin ui too slow (timing out on webserver). 
> Database is PostgreSQL 7.1.3 and Interchange 4.8.3.  Is there a command 
> line utility to allow this from a tab delineated file.  Also, curiosity 
> question.  For those other people that have done the same, roughly how 
> long did it take for your import to finish.
> 
> Thank you,
> Nicholas Cook
> 


My products database has a similar number of records. I use the admin 
GUI to import as tab-delimted and it takes about 5 minutes to complete 
on my cable connection. My cable company caps the upload speed at 
128Kbps. I noticed that Mozilla and IE work better for this than 
Netscape 6.X did. Netscape 6.X took forever to do much of anything in 
the GUI.

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