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Re: Getting my set list from Peeron to Lugnet
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Date: 
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:29:35 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, David Eaton wrote:
In lugnet.admin.database, Robert Gurskey wrote:
I have Peeron configured for auto-download, but it doesn't seem to be working.
None of the new Pirate sets that I own are showing up in my Peeron inventory.

Is there a way to force Peeron to perform a download?

I think the download process itself is the issue.  A couple years ago, Rene or
Jerry changed the format of the LUGNET set list downloads to include a "year"
column. That caused Peeron's update process to malfunction, using the years as
quantities (so it would claim I had 1984 copies of 6080, for instance). I
believe Dan made a fix at the time, but I think somewhere along the lines, that
fix came undone, because sometime since then the downloads stopped working
again.

The way to force a refresh of the Peeron data is to manually tweak the LUGNET
file, which can be a pain. Essentially, download your set list here:

http://guide.lugnet.com/set/mlistraw.cgi?m=1955

But then, strip out the "year" column (this must be done very exactly!), and
paste the contents into your Peeron collection:

http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/mypartsimport

Note, this will overwrite your existing Peeron list, so be careful before you do
it!

DaveE

Hi all,

if the additional year column is all of an issue here, I could figure out two
approaches:

- we revert back to when there was no year column. The downside being, you won't
have that valuable piece of information in the list anymore.

- we move the additional column someplace else, e.g. to the end of the lines;
this could still cause trouble with import scripts that scan to the end of each
line but would work fine with those that just read in the required (and known)
fields and ignore the rest of each line.

Unfortunately I can't seem to remember when or why we introduced the new field.
Scanning my email archive didn't help much either.

There is, however, still the trusty old
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/mlistraw2.cgi?m=1955 which appears to do what you
are looking for.

(Essentially, that one is still unchanged from when we took over LUGNET in June,
2006, so for whoever it ran well before that day, it should still do...)

Hope I could help. Tell me if there's anything else I can do.

Have fun,

Jerry



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(...) I think the download process itself is the issue. A couple years ago, Rene or Jerry changed the format of the LUGNET set list downloads to include a "year" column. That caused Peeron's update process to malfunction, using the years as (...) (16 years ago, 18-Dec-08, to lugnet.admin.database)

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