Quote Originally Posted by boinkit View Post
I've just started using Zen Cart and have installed Easy Populate to migrate 400 or so products from my existing shop to the Zen one I am building.

The products have all moved over and Easy Populate has dumped them all into a category called 'New'

I have downloaded the EP text file and gone through it changing all the product categories so that they are all correct. I have then uploaded the file (splitting it first of course!) and it seems to have uploaded fine.

However, the products have all moved into categories that I put in the spreadsheet, however most are still in the 'New' category that it originally created.

I didn't create any categories within Zen for it to upload to, I believed Easy Populate would do that for me.

Now it seem though that while all the products are in their main categories they are linked from the ones originally put into the 'New category'. So, if I make 'New' inactive (as I don't want it to show up with all 400 products in) it means that the links are inactive and I end up with no products in any other categories.

How can I fix this? Other than to manually move each product from within Admin?

Would it be better to just start over, delete all products and create the categories again? Then upload everything with Easy Populate? (If so, how can I do this?)

Please can you help me?
You cannot move products from one category to another using EasyPopulate standard.

If you already have products in certain category and then you upload a new file with EasyPopulate specifying different categories, what will happen is that EP will create linked products in the new categories.

I've been there before, I'm sure many more have also been in the same situation.

I think it's just best to start over.

In the ZC admin section, go to Tool>Install SQL Patches and run the following line

DELETE FROM products;

This partially deletes all products. Then go to Tools>EasyPopulate
You will see some message telling you that there are products that were not deleted completely and says to click to fix that. Click it to have it fixed.

Then you can reupload the EP file with all the products in the correct categories this time.


Hopefully, awev will have some free time and release an updated version of EP with some more features. :)