Error importing notes from format: enex

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3.3.13

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I'm getting this error with several of the enex files I just exported from Evernote. I've tried this on two different machines (the other is Ubuntu 24.04) and I get the same error. I suspect the issue might be tied to the amount of PDFs I have stored in Evernote.

The error occurs on the note "range hood install" yet if I export that note by itself and import it, it works fine.

The file in question is too large to upload here, but here's a link (hope that's ok): Manuals.enex - Nextcloud

There's nothing private in it. It's just manuals for a bunch of appliances around the house.

Errors

Error: Line 223587:0: "Range hood install": Unclosed root tag
Line: 223587
Column: 0
Char: 
    at error (C:\Users\Ciuffo\AppData\Local\Programs\Joplin\resources\app.asar\node_modules\@joplin\lib\node_modules\@joplin\fork-sax\lib\sax.js:651:10)
    at strictFail (C:\Users\Ciuffo\AppData\Local\Programs\Joplin\resources\app.asar\node_modules\@joplin\lib\node_modules\@joplin\fork-sax\lib\sax.js:677:7)
    at end (C:\Users\Ciuffo\AppData\Local\Programs\Joplin\resources\app.asar\node_modules\@joplin\lib\node_modules\@joplin\fork-sax\lib\sax.js:658:47)
    at SAXParser.end (C:\Users\Ciuffo\AppData\Local\Programs\Joplin\resources\app.asar\node_modules\@joplin\lib\node_modules\@joplin\fork-sax\lib\sax.js:154:24)
    at SAXStream.end (C:\Users\Ciuffo\AppData\Local\Programs\Joplin\resources\app.asar\node_modules\@joplin\lib\node_modules\@joplin\fork-sax\lib\sax.js:248:18)
    at ReadStream.onend (node:internal/streams/readable:948:10)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:632:28)
    at ReadStream.emit (node:events:518:28)
    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1698:12)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)
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If it helps, I went through all 24 notes in the notebook on Evernote and exported them individually. When I import them as a directory on Joplin, I don't get any errors.

I'd like to not do this for my other notebooks as they have many more notes and it's very time consuming.

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I tried converting my Evernote ENEX file to markdown using Evernote2md, and I got a similar error:

[]2025/06/24 10:54:42 Failed to decode the next note: XML syntax error on line 337788: unexpected EOF

Going to assume that Evernote is generating bad files, and it's not something wrong with Joplin.

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[SOLVED]

I read somewhere else that someone found that importing files directly from a network drive caused a similar issue. I wasn't doing that, but I did export the files from Evernote directly to a network drive. Not sure if it's exactly the same issue, but as a rule of thumb, do all your exporting/importing to local storage to avoid issues.

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I looked at the exported file out of interest. It's indeed truncated. I guess the export to local drive yields a larger file with proper closing tags.

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