Bulk Move 350 issues from one project to another

[Howard Nedd]

I am trying to move 350 issues from one project to another but as soon as I set the operator it takes more than 30 minutes and I eventually get a time out:
What could be the cause of this operation getting stuck?

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen · Accepted solution]

Might also be a "bad" issue. Do like @Mirek says, brake it down to smaller chunks and see if you can isolate the issue or issues causing the problem.

Divide and conquer :)

HTH,
KGM

[Mirek · Accepted solution]

Hard to say why this is timing out. Maybe there is one specific issue that have some problem.. Number of 360 issues should not be a big problem for Bulk operation. Sometimes when it is timing out it does not mean that operation would not complete.. however this time I guess you do not have this situation. Of course you can always break those into smaller parts e.g 4 times 100 issues.. In other words instead of executing it once you can try "current page" and see if that is not timing out..

[Howard Nedd]

Breaking it down to smaller chunks works, i was simply wondering why it could not handle the simple amount (350) of issues. I would expect it to work as it has worked in other environments.

As @Kristjan just stated, possibly there is a "bad" issue in that list. Hard to figure out which one that would be.

[Mirek]

Yes I also mentioned that there might be one specific issue that have some problem .. Anyway glad that it worked :) .. Thank you for confirming!

[Howard Nedd]

When I tried small chunks (current page only) I did get a request to choose the new parent issue, I did not get that for every single junk as this was a subtask that needed to be moved.

Those issues needed to be moved separately for some odd reason.