# Progress indicator for ENEX import?

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [16 October 2020 00:26 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730 "2020-10-16T00:26:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![elsiehupp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/elsiehupp/32/5260_2.png) [@elsiehupp](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/elsiehupp)\
**Post date:** [16 October 2020 00:26 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/1 "2020-10-16T00:26:24Z")

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I am importing my Evernote into Joplin, all 17,489 notes (with attachments!), and it's been sitting for quite a while with very little feedback on screen. It would be nice if there was some sort of progress bar, or at least a disclosure triangle to show the log output of the import process.

 ![Screen Shot 2020-10-15 at 8.13.28 PM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/2X/4/43f878e5742cbe73964e244a33f3d47c232dd19f.png)

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**Author:** ![wandern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wandern](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/wandern)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2020 04:31 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/2 "2020-10-28T04:31:53Z")

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I will second this. I'm importing substantially fewer notes, and Joplin has been rotating the spinner for 10 hours with no indication as to its progress. A simple "notes imported" counter would seem to be a ridiculously easy thing to add, but would be extremely useful from a user perspective. At this point, I have no idea whether it's imported 100 notes or 1000 notes, or if it's indeed doing anything at all...

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**Author:** ![TheDave](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/thedave/32/5500_2.png) [@TheDave](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/TheDave)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2020 04:45 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/3 "2020-10-28T04:45:23Z")

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How was the synchronization, after the initial import?

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**Author:** ![wandern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wandern](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/wandern)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2020 14:46 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/4 "2020-10-28T14:46:51Z")

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@elsiehupp , how long did it take to import your 17,000 notes? I'm currently at 24 hours on importing 4,500 notes from a 2GB .enex file. I'm wondering if it would be more productive to import in smaller chunks. It only took Evernote a few minutes to export the notes.

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**Author:** ![wandern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wandern](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/wandern)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2020 16:06 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/5 "2020-10-28T16:06:53Z")

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I finally force-killed Joplin to abort the .enex import. Joplin had imported 1,336 notes in approximately 25 hours, so it looks like it would take at least three days to import a full 4,500 notes. Just a note for anyone who's been looking at the spinner for a long time on a decent-size Evernote import...

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**Author:** ![TheDave](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/thedave/32/5500_2.png) [@TheDave](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/TheDave)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2020 16:13 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/6 "2020-10-28T16:13:47Z")

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Any idea if there was any background synchronization going on? Or is this just importing into the local store?

I have only imported a few hundred notes at a time, many with attachments, and it has never taken more than a few seconds. On the other hand, it could struggle to seek in larger files or similar.

I’ve got a working Terminal install now, I’m going to try importing all my ENEX files to see how it goes.

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**Author:** ![laurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2020 17:17 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/7 "2020-10-28T17:17:32Z")

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ENEX import will be improved in the next version (1.3.x) including fixes for bugs that could cause the app to freeze on large ENEX files.

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**Author:** ![TheDave](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/thedave/32/5500_2.png) [@TheDave](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/TheDave)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2020 18:01 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/8 "2020-10-28T18:01:24Z")

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That’s great news @laurent, thanks. Any rough ETA (days/weeks/months?) — I’m in no hurry and could easily wait, my Evernote subscription is paid until May 2021.

Should I look into testing against a pre-release? If I go this route, any compatibility issues with the release version of the iOS client?

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**Author:** ![wandern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wandern](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/wandern)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2020 19:21 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/9 "2020-10-28T19:21:26Z")

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@TheDave I wasn't able to respond before because of a reply-per-thread limitation on my account. At any rate, I started breaking down my EN exports into smaller chunks and have identified a small group of notes that are causing the Joplin import to hang.

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**Author:** ![wandern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wandern](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/wandern)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2020 16:29 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/10 "2020-10-29T16:29:20Z")

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Hang issue on importing certain .enex files is resolved in 1.3.10.

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**Author:** ![elsiehupp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/elsiehupp/32/5260_2.png) [@elsiehupp](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/elsiehupp)\
**Post date:** [12 January 2021 14:47 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/11 "2021-01-12T14:47:17Z")

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I ended up deleting the imported notes because they weren't organized into the proper notebooks. Apparently the two ways to preserve notebooks is to import them one at a time or to replicate the notebook structure as tags. I have dozens and dozens of notebooks, so either of these is a big task, and I kind of ended up deferring it indefinitely. I'm still using Joplin for a certain subset of notes (the ones that are specific to my Linux desktop), but I have yet to succeed in escaping Evernote's clutches...

![LN_Beginning](https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/424840/extras/LN_Beginning.png?t=1606462667)

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**Author:** ![globetrotsky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/globetrotsky/32/14823_2.png) [@globetrotsky](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/globetrotsky)\
**Post date:** [20 September 2022 21:24 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/progress-indicator-for-enex-import/11730/12 "2022-09-20T21:24:53Z")

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Was there any update on this. Late to the party but I left my computer on for six day importing the ENEX file, but to no avail. I just stopped the import in the end.