Uploading but not showing

[BambisFaline]

My profile says that I haven't uploaded anything since early September, but I've been uploading census data every day and am using the most up-to-date version of CensusPlus.

[bringoutyourdead]

Well that isn't good.

I did a db query for your userid and also for some of your IP addresses that have been logged.. no attempts are recorded at all since the last recorded.

Here are some debugging steps for you to take.
Since you directly upload and don't use Uniuploader... first check that your data file isn't bigger then oh about 8MB in size.. if it is, the web server software will barf on the upload and nothing is shown.
[if this is the problem.. look at /census prune and /census serverprune commands or consider using Uniuploader 3rd party code]


If over size file is not the problem,
next time you upload check the text in the inner box which should say:
"You are currently logged in as BambisFaline"

Being a regular site user, your browser contains your login cookie which allows you be auto logged into the main pages (not forum pages).
But if you log yourself off the site.. you can find yourself in anonymous mode and not realize you forgot to log back in. [been there, done that]
I might not have spotted the uploads since you seem to mostly be logging in from a pool of IP addresses. [larger number of possibilities then I have time to check.]

If those are not the problem, then the next step is:
do another upload, followed by a PM to me containing the following information - your IP address, the as close to exact time you did the upload (use UTC if you can.. or give me your exact Timezone) and the exact to the byte file size of your uploaded CensusPlus.lua file.
It would also probably help to verify the file if you could copy/past in the PM the first few lines of the CensusPlus.lua file including a few timestamps from the [TimesPlus] section.
However if you are not comfortable in doing that don't bother, I wouldn't want you to mistakenly modify the datafile.

I will then attempt to find if the upload actually arrived and was stored in the upload directory.
Not an easy task, if you do not have the information I requested.
On the other hand it will not be as bad as it use to be.. drats

[BambisFaline]

first check that your data file isn't bigger then oh about 8MB in size.. if it is, the web server software will barf on the upload and nothing is shown.

It was way more than 8 megs.

Does it affect the census if I prune old data or is the census really just interested in who I am seeing since my last upload?

[bringoutyourdead]

For upload purposes, the most efficient process is to upload, prune all your data, census , upload.. rinse and repeat.
once a character is seen at a specific level (all other data points being equal) any further reporting at that level is just ignored.
Only when something changes for that character is new data stored in the site database.

The only reason to keep more then just that current snap shot of data... is for your own personal use and display in game.
Remember, your in game data is only the current know level for the characters seen.

For example:
if your character dings 20
and you do /census me to run a census on your character
your display will show your character at 20
if you then ding 21 and repeat the /census me
your display will only show your character at level 21... as level 20 is now history.

That is why people want to upload data to warcraftrealms.com... the site remembers and displays history.
Except where issues cropped up and older low level history was lost or purged.

I am still not happy about that ... but oh well. such as life and data storage.