posted on September 12, 2000 01:34:26 PM new
I have yet to figure out to do this on Ebud.
I have a years worth of auctions pull up everytime it opens.With over 4000 auctions on it,it takes forever to load.Plus forever to send out email.
How do I go about having it just pull up auction info for the last 90 days.
posted on September 12, 2000 04:32:33 PM new
Adrian,
I used the export function in the tools section.
Then, I had a question on one of the auctions that I exported and so I used the import feature, choosing a date range that would include that auction. It imported that range, I looked at that auction and then exported it again.
I haven't really checked it out more than that one shot thing, but it worked just fine for me and made my file much more manageable for loading and e-mailing.
You might want to check with the powers that be at Ebud to be sure that you won't lose any data doing that. Please update when you find out.
posted on September 12, 2000 05:20:01 PM new
Imabrit -
BEWARE! If you "export" data you will NOT
get all your information! It only saves some of the columns. (edited to add) I learned the hard way when the damned thing didn't export the columns with postage and check totals.
You need to arrange the columns the way you want to, so that all the data you want to save is showing and the columns you do not want are hidden.
Then WRITE EBUD TEXT - tell it to make it "comma delimited (CSV)" ... It will save a file with ALL that data. (rename it because the next time you write one it will overwrite it) This can be opened with MS EXCEL as a spread sheet or with ACCESS as a database.
Then you can "export" auctions older than XX days to get them out of the database and not lose anything critical.
[ edited by abacaxi on Sep 12, 2000 05:25 PM ]
posted on September 12, 2000 05:52:59 PM newabacaxi I tried the write ebud.txt, but it didn't give me the option of "comma delimited (CSV)". It just saved a .txt file. How do you do the comma delimited CSV file?
posted on September 12, 2000 07:34:43 PM new
I think I better leave it alone after reading this,just in case I end up sending the planet earth hurling towards jupiter.
posted on September 12, 2000 09:35:30 PM new
Imabrit,
you could do what I did; although I did it for a different purpose. got a new computer, so I copied all my ebud files to floppy, but the most important one to copy is ebuddat. I then downloaded a new version of ebud. started with a clean slate, with old files on floppy. Since I don't have that many auctions I just copied that file back onto the new program, but you could just keep the files on floppy unless you need them. I went through ebud support and they were very helpful so you might want to ask them if you don't want to do what I did.
cariad
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