My bookmarks & tags imported from Delicious but the Description text truncated. Can it be fixed?

My bookmarks and tags seem to have imported correctly from Delicious. However the text in the Description area truncated after one and three-quarters lines for each bookmark. The text is present in the file that was used for the import, and it doesn't seem to be a space issue. Can it be fixed? Do I need to delete all of them and then re-import? Do I need to manually edit each bookmark to replace the missing text?

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a g commented · October 23, 2011 20:39 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

Yeah, bizarre behavior -- new links can have very long descriptions (have not run into a limit yet) but the 2300+ bookmarks I imported from delicious were cut off around 255 characters. Very strange and kind of annoying.
Logos _ commented · October 07, 2011 05:55 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

i want to import more than 5000 bookmarks from delicious: NOT ONLY the Despription, but also the titles AND TAGS! were truncated in words using with ä, ö, ü - even its possible in diigo, to use this Nouns. BAD BUG!
chat alex commented · October 02, 2011 10:28 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

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chat alex commented · October 02, 2011 10:27 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

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chat alex commented · October 02, 2011 10:27 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

www.eg-girls.com
Blue Meridian commented · September 27, 2011 08:11 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

Same for me - I want to move to Diigo and likely go premium, but until this is fixed, it's pointless. I have 4,356 bookmarks at the moment and I'm hardly going to go through and fix them all manually!
Shalabh Chaturvedi commented · May 10, 2011 23:04 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

I imported bookmarks from delicious. None of the tags are visible in the tag list (except one 'lisp'). The other tags show up on the bookmark but not in the tag list on the left.
here's luck commented · May 08, 2011 13:32 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

+1. Still a problem after 5 months!
Tulimeeria Rabbity commented · March 04, 2011 04:08 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

I have about 1,700 bookmarks and I would estimate that about 2/3 of them have longer-than-256-characters notes. I'm not importing until this gets fixed.
Composition Forum commented · March 02, 2011 07:39 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

I'd like to migrate from Delicious and go premium with several accounts, but this is a show-stopper for me. Seems like this bug should be very easy to fix.
Justin Keyes commented · January 18, 2011 16:08 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

I'm holding off on diigo until this is fixed. I have too many bookmarks to go through and fix this manually.
Jens Ulrik commented · December 30, 2010 11:35 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

You (Diigo) should at least mention this 255 character limit on the import page.
ken . commented · December 23, 2010 02:48 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

Same thing also in ideas, see http://feedback.diigo.com/forums/76211-ideas/suggestions/1304507-increase-the-character-limit-for-link-descriptions?ref=comments
ken . commented · December 23, 2010 02:38 · Flag as inappropriate · Delete

Agree, Delicious allowed for descriptions up to 1000 characters, and Diigo seems capable of that, though the import looks like it may have truncated to 255 chars - perhaps a script doesn't match the db?

Could it be run again to get our longer descriptions back?

Should we reimport the file again once the load dies down a bit?