Thanks Charlie - we're stuggling with more than about 10,000 at the moment (on our in-house server) - it doesn't seem to be a consistent problem and so are trying to work out what the causes may be.  Possibilities are different results on XP/Windows 7 (we're currently running the same networked copy of Recorder over both operating systems), or possibly server capacity.  However, we thought it might be best to try and get a feel of other experiences and any 'best practice' that's around as well as running test imports on our own system.

Is there a specific error message?

Do you have anything other than basic "who where what when" columns matched? There have been problems with complex 'abundance' values in the past I think.

Thanks All,

To try and answer your questions (apologies as we are not the most technical of people here....)

There are no error messages, it just hangs for a daft amount of time.  Sometimes it can be that we can try the import again instantly and it goes in no problems.

We've been trying very simple imports due to the work of a certain project containing only taxon name, determiner (with a single value), recorder (again, a single value), location name, grid ref, date and taxon comments, so nothing too odd and considerably more basic than out 'usual' requirements for our data standards.

We're spending today attempting to do some more detailed testing (a mix of import sizes and using XP and W7) to try and establish if we seem to have a 'maximum' and if it varies per operating system.  It may be that these results will allow me to sound slightly more intellegent!

Charlie - how long is the 25,000 records taking?  Is the source Excel?