Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[overmyhead]

Hello Scrat Thanks for responding!
I am on a dedicated server. Had over 2,000 products building to just over 8,000. Too many? I changed the php.ini (max_input_time = 120) I can upload now, but there is no report - goes to page cannot display. Makes it difficult to say the least to not be able to see the upload report and details.

[Scrat]

overmyhead this is a know issue with EP 1.2.5.4, if you have over x number of products it will not report, but should still update / import / delete products. I am sure if you do a test on a product you will see it still works but just not reports. If you search in this thread it has been a issue for others.

[ORIKO]

Dear Scratt

I am not altering any file of EP yet, just installed and trying to upload 40K items but splitting is not giving me good results.
Last night, I did upload for a few items, it worked OK.
So, I guess problem is item quantity.
Splitting default quantity is 300 and I changed to 1000 but in vain.
Pls help.

[Scrat]

ORIKO : EP only really works well with approx. 300 products at a time this is probably your problem, trying to upload too many products at once. Does it work OK with 300 products at once ?

[overmyhead]

Hello Scrat,
Thank you for the information. I just wasn't using the correct search terms for the thread.

Oriko, Scrat is right, EP works best with smaller number of products in the file. I split mine manually. Just be sure to keep the header (top line) into each file and keep the same format (text - tab delimited).

Thank you for being so helpful Scrat

[ORIKO]

SCRAT and OVERMYHEAD,

My solution is to upload txt file in temp dir and just insert to db.
I had to upload 5 - 6 big size files and fist 3-4 was OK, but last 2 i failed to get a success page. however, site is completely uploaded status, server was working perfect. biggest size is 6MB but anyway uploaded.
Thanks for your help.

[stxmona]

Beginner here.
Have uploaded my data to database and yeah it worked.
In the Wiki instructions it says you can only load one photo but then later on it talks about multiple photos.

So can it load multiple photos and what is the symbol to put between the photos when entering them into the .txt file.
TIA
Mona

[awhfy99]

Beginner here.
Have uploaded my data to database and yeah it worked.
In the Wiki instructions it says you can only load one photo but then later on it talks about multiple photos.

So can it load multiple photos and what is the symbol to put between the photos when entering them into the .txt file.
TIA
Mona

Hi Mona,

Just upload the 1st and call it something like myphoto.jpg, then name the other images myphoto_1, myphoto_2, etc. You do not name them in the tab delimited text file as the software will associate them as additional images as long as the only name difference is after the "_" character.

[stxmona]

Thank you Dennis....that is what I thought and what happen but just wanted to make sure that I was using EP correctly.
Mona

[aeternal]

I've searched google and this thread for any possible solutions to my problem but haven't found anything. Everything is working fine with Easy Populate except when it comes to the product description field. I noticed several symbols and characters such as the degree symbol, single quote, and trademark symbol were all replaced with ?'s for example: It's becomes It?s. Ive read something about using escape characters but am not sure how to implement that.