Thank you for your feedback.
I just tried it here but duplicating using the toolbar, menu command or context menu worked without a crash here.
I tested it in the Listing section.
If prompted the next time you start GarageSale, please send us the crash report.
Also, can you please open the Console utility and look from output from GarageSale from the time you were trying to duplicate an item?
I think my database is too big to export - about 12000 entries. It will only grow as well.
I successfully exported 2000 entries. I guess I could do it in blocks. Can I import more than one file or will each successive file overwrite the current database?
Isn’t there any way of interrogating the database or export numerous listings to a spreadsheet?
Does it work for you to export a single listing using GarageSale’s export function from the FILE menu, re-import it afterwards and then duplicate the imported listing?
It creates a new listing leaving the original but it does not know which group it belongs to.
If I have to export 12000 items it looks like I will have to delete all existing listings (to avoid duplications) and then the whole 12000 will be in one big list. That would take me days to re-order and I am not sure I want to go down that track.
Can I interrogate the database directly? Is it accessible by mysql or similar?
I said in an earlier post I can do this in much bigger batches and re-import them in the same number but it is a fair amount of work because:
when they are re-imported they are imported into one long list (groupless), which means I will then have 12000 in a single group less list to be re-sorted. Not sure if I could face that.
I then have to delete all the originals to remove any corruption that may exist in them.
I may not know until all 12000 have been imported whether it has made any difference.
Hi Mark
If it is possible to corrupt the database, which is obviously possible and that’s ok, then it would be really useful to have a utility to validate the database as well.
I had some trouble importing when I first upgraded to V7 - so I manually copied stuff over to the directory from an old back up. It worked fine for a few weeks - and then all of a sudden this week it crashes every time I’m using GS. Right now it’s an inconvenience and I just relaunch. I don’t have time to look into this. I do hope they come up with a fix and release a bug fix update.
Don’t gert me wrong, I really like the app and I can also work my way its problems, but every release seems to introduce new bugs and there are still outstanding requests for improvements from years back that have not been implemented.
For me, still crashes while relisting (manually, not auto-relist). Already sent a video to @ilja some weeks ago, but now I saved also the crash report. I will send it too…
Is seems that many people are having different bugs. That is worrying. It may be that many users are having database integrity issues but without a lower level access to the database it is impossible to tell.
David