Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[bumba000]

Okay, 1.6.1 worked great for me at stompaudio.com
Im working on another site for a friend and have never had any luck there with the feeder. any version.
I see the config for 1.6.1 in admin config now but nothing under tools.
have uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times now. even tried deleting the files before uploading new ones and overwriting. still no luck.

What is wrong when feeder doesnt show up under the admin-tools?

Thanks,
John

[gothstone]

Do you have admin profiles installed? Have you checked your permissions there?

[bumba000]

Not sure what admin profiles are. Just made a new profile under tools and admin settings tho. Says nothing about restrictions or access to anything tho.

[bumba000]

Not quite sure whats going on here but user tracking isnt showing up either.
.sql executes fine. all files are in place. no config with UT tho.

wonder if im just doing something wrong and im not catching my mistake.

John

[tj1]

A couple of questions:

- Is it necessary to have the feed folder chmodded to 777 ? I currently have it to 755 and it seems to work just fine.

- I just noticed there's v1.61 already, I currently have v1.60. It says there was a bug fix, however I've done a full comparison of both releases using WinMerge and the only different files appear to be the README files. Were there really any bug fixes?

Thanks.

[numinix]

A couple of questions:

- Is it necessary to have the feed folder chmodded to 777 ? I currently have it to 755 and it seems to work just fine.

- I just noticed there's v1.61 already, I currently have v1.60. It says there was a bug fix, however I've done a full comparison of both releases using WinMerge and the only different files appear to be the README files. Were there really any bug fixes?

Thanks.

yes there were a bunch but they aren't very significant and will only appear if you

1) don't have ASA installed (or the UPC/ISBN mods)
2) are using a non-english site as was brought to my attention much earlier on in the thread.

I'll have to take a look and make sure I included the correct file sometime tonight.

[tj1]

Yes, please do check as I really did complete comparison of both releases (1.60 and 1.61) using WinMerge and the only difference is in the README file, not a single difference in any other files.

And about having the feed folder, I guess it's not necessary to have chmodded to 777, correct? I have set to 755 and it works just fine.


Another issue I'm having. The file is being generated and uploads just fine, but Google gives the following error:
============
Outcome: Bulk upload failed. No items are live. There are too many formatting errors in your file. - help
Number of items processed: 1
Number of items succeeded: 0
Number of active items: 0
Uploaded at: Sep 21, 2007 8:34pm PDT
Processed at: Sep 21, 2007 8:31pm PDT

Errors:
Error Bad data Line #4
We didn't understand some of the XML formatting in your file. You may be missing a tag or have a nesting or formatting error. - help
=============

I'm using v1.61. I opened the file and what I have for line four is the following:
<title>S&A</title>

Do you what could be causing the error? is it the & ampersand?