Originally posted by kgb
I had the same problem "unexpected end-fo-file" on 8.1.5 the reason was in ASCII mode, import utility started loading from this dump but never finished without that error.
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Well, it depends on what you mean by "...import utility started loading ...". If you specified an ASCII file as a export dump, import utitility could only connect to the database. Then it tried to read from the dump file, but as it was an unknown format of the file header (ASCCI instead of binary) it aborted immediately with "unexpected end-fo-file". It couldn't possibly started to load data into tables if it was an ASCII file, no way. That is what I mean by "could never started loading from it".

In pthornburg's case the log file shows that import actually loaded a couple of tables succesfuly and then aborted. So obviously the dmp was ftp-ed in binary mode, but there must have been some other problems with it.