noob question on census useage

Forestlordx · Post by **Forestlordx** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:56 am

I am new to the census thing and had a quick question...

DO you have to upload a census each time you run one? I run census on say Firetree and then want to do a census on kelthuzad...do I need to upload it(firetree) first before running on kethuzard or does it save the census data so you know which is which from each server? I run a huge amount of census's and then upload all at once.

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:03 am

Log onto Firetree... Census
Log onto Kul'Thuzad... Census

Upload your data =)

Everything is stored into one file and no matter how many realms you census on it will submit all your data at once.

Post by **Rollie** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:25 am

Yup, it is cumulative so you can gather on several realms before you upload!

arcady0 · Post by **arcady0** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:39 pm

Despite the extension being some funky WoW extension, it is a text file and you can open it in a text editor and see exactly what you're uploading. I did that before my first upload just to be sure everything was safe in there (not being an expert in WoW scripting, I don't yet know what kinds of information they can record, so I wanted to be sure).

You can do that with the 'saved data' from any add-on as far as I can tell, and before uploading them, you probably should check to see what that person is asking you to upload.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:55 pm

Yep, it saves all the data, just beware if you census several servers that the file can grow too large to be processed - I believe 20MB is the absolute limit, and to get even that high you have to use UniUploader; the website's upload page won't take higher than 10MB. So if you do census a lot, it's an idea to purge/prune your database if it gets too large

Btw if you want to keep the data for one particular server but purge the rest, "/censusplus serverprune" when logged in on the server you want to keep does the trick - before 2.0 I had a 8MB database with about 50,000 characters on for my server, but lost it all in the patch mess - I tried to add my old file in but the mod just overwrote it every time... oh well, time to start again

Phreeze · Post by **Phreeze** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:38 am

yeah pruning the old crap out of the censusfile is always a good idea. just do it once a month or so

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:43 am

I prune mine every day, but it helps if you census a lot of different servers