diff --git a/lib/tasks/wordpress.rake b/lib/tasks/wordpress.rake
index f544c72..6976945 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/wordpress.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/wordpress.rake
@@ -99,14 +99,26 @@ namespace :wordpress do
     Rake::Task["environment"].invoke
     dump = WordPressImport::Dump.new(params[:file_name])
     
-    p "Importing #{dump.attachments.each_slice(25).first.count} attachments ..."
-    attachments = dump.attachments.each_slice(25).first.each(&:to_rails)
-    p "Errors were encountered: #{$ATTACHMENT_EXCEPTIONS.inspect}" unless $ATTACHMENT_EXCEPTIONS.blank?
+    p "Importing #{dump.attachments.each_slice(200).first.count} attachments ..."
+    attachments = dump.attachments.each_slice(200).first.each(&:to_rails)
+    unless $ATTACHMENT_EXCEPTIONS.blank?
+      p "----------------------------------------------------------"
+      p "ERRORS WERE ENCOUNTERED IMPORTING ATTACHMENTS:" 
+      $ATTACHMENT_EXCEPTIONS.each{|exception| puts exception}
+      p "----------------------------------------------------------"
+    end
     
     # parse all created Post and Page bodys and replace the old wordpress media urls 
     # with the newly created ones
     p "Replacing attachment URLs found in posts/pages ..."
     attachments.each(&:replace_url)
+
+    unless $REPLACEMENT_EXCEPTIONS.blank?
+      p "----------------------------------------------------------"
+      p "ERRORS WERE ENCOUNTERED REPLACING ATTACHMENTS:" 
+      $REPLACEMENT_EXCEPTIONS.each{|exception| puts exception}
+      p "----------------------------------------------------------"
+    end
   end
 
   desc "reset media tables and then import media data from a WordPress XML dump"
diff --git a/lib/wordpress/attachment.rb b/lib/wordpress/attachment.rb
index 690abb0..76f4b11 100644
--- a/lib/wordpress/attachment.rb
+++ b/lib/wordpress/attachment.rb
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ module WordPressImport
         else
           to_file
         end
-      rescue Exception => ex
+      rescue StandardError => ex
         message = "ERROR saving attachment #{url} -- #{ex.message}"
         p message
         $ATTACHMENT_EXCEPTIONS = [] if $ATTACHMENT_EXCEPTIONS.blank?
@@ -57,13 +57,21 @@ module WordPressImport
     end
 
     def replace_url
-      @occurrance_count = 0
-      if image?
-        replace_image_url
-      else
-        replace_resource_url
+      begin
+        @occurrance_count = 0
+        if image?
+          replace_image_url
+        else
+          replace_resource_url
+        end
+        p "Replaced #{@occurrance_count} occurrances of #{url}"
+      rescue StandardError => ex
+        message = "ERROR replacing URL #{url} -- #{ex.message}"
+        p message
+        $REPLACEMENT_EXCEPTIONS = [] if $REPLACEMENT_EXCEPTIONS.blank?
+        $REPLACEMENT_EXCEPTIONS << message
+        return nil
       end
-      p "Replaced #{@occurrance_count} occurrances of #{url}"
     end
 
     private
@@ -146,7 +154,7 @@ module WordPressImport
     def replace_url_in_blog_posts(new_url)
       ::Post.all.each do |post|
         if (! post.body.empty?) && post.body.include?(url)
-          @occurrance_count++
+          @occurrance_count += 1
           post.body = post.body.gsub(url_pattern, new_url)
           post.save!
         end
@@ -158,7 +166,7 @@ module WordPressImport
         page.translations.each do |translation|
           translation.parts.each do |part|
             if (! part.content.to_s.blank?) && part.content.include?(url)
-              @occurrance_count++
+              @occurrance_count += 1
               part.content = part.content.gsub(url_pattern, new_url)
               part.save!
             end