I had emailed the list earlier about the problem I was having bulk loading thousands of patrons at a time using the import_borrowers.pl assuming that it was a "time out" issue. However, I discovered that part of the problem was having either unescaped single or double quotes in some of the fields. The next problem I discovered concerns the required branchcode and categorycode fields. If I put in a default, they load. If I load them single quoted as I have for the other fields, they don't. I have also discovered, with our installation, at least, the error on the staff page is always: 'Critical field "categorycode" missing' and 'critical field "branchcode" missing' even if the error is really something unrelated (like an unescaped single or double quote somewhere in another field). The error in the log is :"Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/tools/import_borrowers.pl line 156, <fh00001kohatest.txt> line 12435., referer: http://koha.mdah.state.ms.us:8080/cgi-bin/koha/tools/import_borrowers.pl" We are on Koha version 3.00.05.003 and Perl version 5.008008 The good news is that although the staff's categorycodes have to be manually updated, I have 12430 patrons loaded! -- Linda Culberson lculber@mdah.state.ms.us Archives and Records Services Division Ms. Dept. of Archives& History P. O. Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601/576-6873 Facsimile: 601/576-6824