Restoring sessions with GUI going through motions

[Mike Batchelor]

Is there a way to restore a session without waiting for the GUI to pretend 
that it is conducting a scan?  I've tried using the command line to restore 
a scan:

nessus -T xml -R 20021220-102622 -q 127.0.0.1 1241 username password 
20021220-102622.xml

But that ends prematurely with:

"Communication closed by server
nessus: nessusd abruptly shut the communication down - the test may be 
incomplete"

I'm trying to restore some sessions I saved months ago when I was using 
Nessus 1.x, with Nessus 2.x which is the version I use now.  I want to 
export all those old results to the new XML format, for import into a 
database.

I don't understand why the GUI wants to pretend it is conducting a scan 
when I restore a session.  How do I get it to stop doing that and just get 
to the results, so I can save them as XML?  What's the deal?

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