Can't import mbox over 1gb to mail

Hello, Recently I had to do a clean install, and archived my mail boxes. I have successfully imported all but one, which doesn't seem to import properly. The import window stays open, says it's importing , then after a few hours(!), it says it has only partially imported the mail box, but when i look in the import folder, there are no files, no mail. This mail box was my main one, so is 1.38gb, is there a size limit to what mail will import? Is there any other way to open the mbox file, I did manage to open it in text edit, but it was incomprehensible to me.
I would hate to lose the last 6 months of mail.
I have tried opening in entourage, and thunderbird, but could not import.
thanks

I don't know of another program that can read an archived mailbox though that's not to say that there isn't one. The fact that you can't successfully import the contents seems to me to suggest that it is perhaps corrupted which is very unfortunate. I guess it is a hard lesson and you wouldn't be the first to have had this happen to. If you have only tried the once to import the messages from the archive then give it another shot just in case a subsequent attempt is successful.
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