Topic: Easy populate says it uploaded .csv but no files uploaded when i go to shop?

[Isiah]

I ran my .csv in easy populate and i got no errors i got

 

| 456155 | 1000 by Je | 1000 was | Jean Patou | Shower Gel | Women | 12 | 4.2 | http://www | http://www "new product added" on them all but when i go to my shop there not on my site any reason why its says they added but they didn't upload. Thanks to anyone who can help.

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[germ]

I could be mistaken (and someone correct me if I am, PLEASE), but I believe EP just populates the DB and you have to upload the images youself...

:blush:

 

If you use FTP be sure to FTP images in BINARY mode.

[Isiah]

Well i was always under the impression that then when you upload a .csv that it would upload image, description the complete product i mean even when i went to the download link of the csv it said "this csv is our entire catalog with images" I know know images were in the file that i downloaded but there are links to them in the csv. So now i am confused and still i have a empty shop. So can someone please clarify this for and explain why my items didn't upload. Thanks to anyone who helps.

[germ]

I have a store that has thousands of mp3 files. I would like to sell them as downloads. And I thought that Easy Populate would work great for this, but the instructions for easy populate state quite clearly:

 

"What does EP *NOT* do well?

So far, EP does not handle attributes well. When viewing product export, it may be difficult to understand how it works. As such, I'do not recommend that anyone use EP for managing attributes. EP does not upload images, this has to be done using and ftp client, such as filezilla, manually.

EP does not handle "download" attributes.

 

(Damnit, those are pretty much the exactly what I need Easy Populate to do.)

 

However there is an addition to Easy Populate by ejda called "file downloads" uploaded November 12, 2008. Does anyone know if this new update works?

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/500

 

Also, there is an update by asiabound from September 3, 2007 called file downloads. (But the manual stating that Easy Populate doesn't do downloads was, I believe written after Sep. 3 2007 and before Nov 12, 2008.

 

Has anyone used these updates? any luck? I don't want to spend the time (and possibly money) installing easy populate if it can't do product downloads, but I really don't want to spend a few minutes per product to add a downloadable file to it in the product attribute admin panel.

 

If Easy Populate just won't do product downloads, does anyone know another contribution I can use, or at least make adding thousands of mp3s easier. For example - is "Download file helper" good? (http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6410)

 

Thanks,

Jeff

Link to the above topic here - click me

 

When all else fails, read the directions and look at the support thread...

<_<

[NodsDorf]

I've used EP alot lately.

 

You just need to include a category_img field in your .cvs, then type in the image name

like.

movie1.jpg

movie2.jpg

gameA.gif

 

Just upload all your images to your catalog/image folder and they will be referenced correctly.