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Just to add this: the fact is that these strange MS characters I mentioned on the reply above are getting in the way of the timeout. They just seem to make the code freeze. And there's no timeout.

Any ideas?

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Re^3: Timeout corrupted excel files: MS characters freeze code
by naikonta (Curate) on May 10, 2007 at 03:09 UTC
    What is the longest time until you're out of patience? I once migrated many xls files (around 2-3 MG each) into mysql. Each file took like forever but the process eventually ended successfully. Once or twice, I did open a file manually only to save (as) it again under the same name. This made the file size smaller dan the process went faster. But doing this for 30-40 files wasn't an option at all, and I couldn't find any way to automate this on Linux. So I just enjoyed my time doing something else while waiting the migration process to do its job, especially after I did prog.pl /path/to/dir/*.xls.

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