Time limit exceeded while importing files

I just tried to import 3259 images in WordPress 6.2 (PHP 7.2.34) on an actual (cheap/basic) server, so not locally – and it worked fine. The only issue I found was that it stopped roughly mid-way when my computer went to sleep (because it was taking so long). But then I just ran import again and it continued where it left off. I imagine that a similar thing could happen if your WP login session expires.

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When reloading the page I see, that it’s doing more in the background.

Those might be some other requests, but this plugin just doesn’t do anything after page is reloaded.

Looking at the Firefox Debug Tool it’s exectly that: The last XHR request doesn’t have any response data.

I was able to get this empty response error when my computer went to sleep (as I explained above).

So I’d suggest trying to:

1. prevent your computer from going to sleep or losing internet connection,
2. keep WordPress logged-in session active (maybe opening WP in a new tab and reloading there), but definitely do not reload the tab where import is happening (this would stop everything),
3. trying again if it stops.

Interesting, thanks for the details! What I could do fairly quickly is to make this “batch size” customizable (for any number of selected files). Currently, it’s:

• 10 (files per request) when importing more than 100 files,
• 5 for more than 10 files,
• 1 for up to 10 files.

I mean, to me it doesn’t seem like a good idea to set it to 1 when importing a lot of files since that would make a network request for each file and would take forever. But it might be necessary in some cases, so I’ll try to do it tonight or at some point this week.

Hey @g4rf, I just pushed your suggestion to the current v1.3.1 (since it’s a smaller change). Though it might have a big impact, let’s see 🙂

If this solves your issue, could you please resolve this topic?

Thanks again for great suggestions 🙌

Oh, that’s some strange behaviour. But if you don’t see set_time_limit in code, it could be that you already had version 1.3.1 before I pushed this “set_time_limit” change (to the same 1.3.1 version). I added it just before the wp_insert_attachment like this:

$max_execution_time = ini_get('max_execution_time');
if ($max_execution_time) {
    // Reset execution time so that each file can be processed
    set_time_limit($max_execution_time);
}

$attach_id = wp_insert_attachment($attachment, $absolute_path);

In any case, I’m glad it’s kind of solved 😀

Thanks again for the very useful feedback.

Oh wow, thanks for sharing @septemberdigital!

That reminded me of this message from some other reported issue here: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/media-synk-error-e/#post-13184876

Hi. I solved by replacing the extension imagick with gmagick, on php 7.4.
On other installations with previous versions of php (like 7.2), imagick works fine, but still, in case, you could try gmagick anyway.

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