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Nariana · Post by **Nariana** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:41 am

Ive been trying to upload my data since i picked up the mod. When i get to the upload screen, it says "File appears to be valid, checking your version number." It never changes from this. I know that i have the latest version. Is there a confirmation when the data is sent, or is this the final screen? If not, any ideas as to my not completing?

Post by **Rollie** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:16 am

hrm, no it sounds like something is amiss. Can you email me your CensusPlus.lua file? rollie (at) warcraftrealms.com

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:10 am

weird... dial up?

Serverhopper · Post by **Serverhopper** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:24 pm

I'm not sure if my data uploaded, I get the same message as Nariana, although it also says more stuff in smaller letters like "Found CensusPlus database". I've probably uploaded 20 times since I started 5 or 6 days ago, but on my profile it says I haven't uploaded anything.

Can anyone else see my WR updates?
I have Mozilla Firefox, could the file have been put somewhere else by default?
Also, originally I had a different problem uploading which I'm sure the data didn't get through then, so to "fix" this problem I copied the CensusPlus.lua from the Interface folder to the WTF folder, since the CensusPlus.lua wasn't by default where it was supposed to be. Was i wrong in doing this, if so what should I do, to fix this?

P.S I'm not very good with computers, yet I tried to figure it out on my own like a nub.

/Epic fail

Post by **Rollie** » Thu May 01, 2008 8:10 am

Er.. yes, you shouldn't copy your CensusPlus.lua file from your Addons folder to the WTF folder. That one gets created automatically.

You need to delete the one in your SavedVariables folder and run CensusPlus. It should create the file automatically and that is the one you need to upload.

Serverhopper · Post by **Serverhopper** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:42 pm

I copied the CensusPlus.lua from the interface folder to the WTF folder after many failed attempts uploading the data. I did this because when I clicked on the savedvariables folder after having run the census many times, the CensusPlus.lua wasn't there.
Is it possible the file was put somewhere else by default?
If I delete the CensusPlus.lua file that I copied and try again to see if the same problem doesn't happen again, would all the characters go to waste that the census found thus far?

Serverhopper · Post by **Serverhopper** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:53 pm

United States
CensusPlus
File appears to be valid, checking your version number.

Checking your file
Found CensusPlus Database
Found CensusPlus Info Data
Found Version Number => Version: <Found> Locale: <Found> Locale: US\"; <Found> Locale: EU\"; <Found> Locale: ??\"; <Found> Locale: <Found> Locale: <Found> Locale: <Found> Locale: <Found> Locale: <Found> Locale: <Found> Locale: <Found> Locale: US\" ) ) then <Found> Locale: <Found> Locale: <Found> Locale: US\" ) then <=
^This is the exact message that appears after uploading (minus IP adress). lol
Which led me to believe that the upload was successful, yet it shows I have 0 WR updates right?

Post by **Rollie** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:00 pm

The problem is that you SavedVariables/CensusPlus.lua file now has lots of bogus stuff in there, and your upload proves it. You will need to completely delete the file and start over, I'm sorry.

Serverhopper · Post by **Serverhopper** » Thu May 01, 2008 9:52 pm

I deleted the file, then ran the census in 3 realms, surprisingly the data from before was saved. Unfortunately there is no SavedVariables/CensusPlus.lua file, after exiting the game. I don't know where the file could be, besides where I found a file with the same name in the C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\CensusPlus. Apparently this data is saving somwhere, but where that is I have no idea. /sigh
Has this happened to anyone else before?

Post by **Rollie** » Wed May 07, 2008 11:14 am

Are you ABSOLUTELY sure you are looking in the right place/file?

/World of Warcraft/WTF/Accounts/##ACCOUNTNAME##/SavedVariables/CensusPlus.lua

Make sure you don't have extensions hidden and are actually looking at CensusPlus.lua.bak

Serverhopper · Post by **Serverhopper** » Wed May 07, 2008 3:32 pm

WOOT! The CensusPlus.lua and CensusPlus.lua.bak just appeared, I don't how, had stoped trying to find it but just now I checked and the file was there lol. I guess the best way to fix things is to let them fix themselves rofl
I just uploaded the data, hopefully everything I downloaded till this point is counted.

*fingers crossed*

Phreeze · Post by **Phreeze** » Thu May 08, 2008 4:06 am

be sure that your WoW is closed when you do stuff with your censusplus files

Serverhopper · Post by **Serverhopper** » Thu May 08, 2008 2:34 pm

When I upload it says it was successful, yet I don't see my WR Updates. Can anyone else see my WR Updates?

Post by **Rollie** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:19 pm

I see that you are indeed uploading a file, but it has no data. You need to make sure that you actually have CensusPlus gathering data in game!

When you open the CensusPlus addon in game (type /censusplus) does your UI display data?

Serverhopper · Post by **Serverhopper** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:18 pm

I set the census to run automatically (or maybe it was set to run automatically on its own I don't remember lol) and get a confirmation of a successful scan after it's complete. I just click on the little icon by the minimap to look at the census data and it shows what all my scans found thus far (although some data was lost after being purged). Most of my scans were run before CensusPlus.lua appeared in my Saved Variables folder for about a week or so, the data from before CensusPlus.lua appeared was still viewable to me after this. Which leads me to believe the census data is saving somewhere else than its supposed to, just as it was before I was able to upload.
I have no idea how fix this, but I get a feeling that the solution to this problem will cause me to lose the data I found thus far, so I will hold off on scanning the servers that data is most needed and just play on the servers I like, until a solution is found. Thank you in advance for your help, I hope to hear from you soon Mr. Rollie

Post by **Rollie** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:29 pm

You might check to make sure you are no uploading the .bak version of the file.

Email me the file you are uploading to rollie (at) warcraftrealms.com

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:21 pm

XP or Vista?

Serverhopper · Post by **Serverhopper** » Tue May 13, 2008 3:17 pm

Vista

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Tue May 13, 2008 3:45 pm

Gotta be the permissions thing then

Make sure that you have full permissions in the WoW directory and not just Read-only. Also I think if you right click the WoW icon and choose the Run as Administrator option it also grants you full permissions to save.

However this problem should effect more than just CensusPlus, nearly all your mods should have issues saving its settings. Because if your only granted Read-only permissions and not full permissions that an Administrator has then the game won't be able to save anything.

If the file located in:
World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\<account>\SavedVariables\CensusPlus.lua is 0kb in size then nothing is getting saved. If the file is much larger like 100kb or more then something is getting saved.

Serverhopper · Post by **Serverhopper** » Tue May 13, 2008 4:58 pm

C+ is my only mod and World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\<account>\SavedVariables\CensusPlus.lua is 1kb in size.
How come I can see previous census data that I scanned then, does that mean it's saved somewhere else?

In any case thanks for the help. I'll make sure to run as administrator from now on, although it would be nice if I can skip that step. How do I give WoW directory full permission?