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rammjet · Posted once Joined: 30 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

AuctionSieve 2.0.0 on Mac OS X.

When I start AS, it presents my sieves but none of my watchlists - I must re-select all of the items each time.

I looked in the directory that would be standard for saving these things:

PowerLED · Active contributor Joined: 03 Nov 2008 Posts: 5

I am having also some problems with the Watchlist using 2.0.0 on WinXP and eBay Germany.

After adding the wanted auctions to the watchlist, it will only retrieve the seller nicknames in some of the entries to the watchlist. When I close auctionsieve and start again later, all the entries in the watchlist has gone, where the seller was not saved before. Its kind off annoying having 44 items in the watchlist and after restarting only 16 left.

I am not sure, if this is an eBay category and/or eBay germany only problem. I have this mostly in the book categories, but it will also fail to save some auctions using other categories aswell.

I have all the Watchlist options unchecked. But I have tested it with the option to download the ebay images too. It will get all the images, however still fails in the seller nicknames and does not keep all the auctions in the watchlist.

I hope, my explanations are not to confusing.

Thanks for your time to check this out.

nev · Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject:

@rammjet I've really gotta fix up the storage of user data...
As a workaround, you can put the Application in a different folder where you have write permissions.

@PowerLED Can you give me the category ids and perhaps some sample item ids?

PowerLED · Active contributor Joined: 03 Nov 2008 Posts: 5

Hello nev,

that specific sieve uses the category de267 only in eBay Germany.

These are some sample item ids, where it didnt catch the seller nickname and didnt save the items it in the watchlist after shutdown:
260534837192
130357519208
300384892738

Thanks for checking that out.

nev · Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 3:54 pm Post subject:

Hooray! Figured this one out.
For some reason, some items aren't visible via the eBay US site (where I get my item detail from).

I've added some code to make it more robust.

If it can't find the item info using eBay US, it uses eBay UK, then it uses eBay Australia and as a final resort uses either your default eBay site or the site you used in your sieve.

I don't go straight to the foreign site because the foreign languages may stuff up the code. It seems eBay UK is generally adequate for European items.

I also fixed up some date code - so hopefully less Unknown ending times.

I'll be releasing a beta shortly...

nev · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:59 pm Post subject:

New beta is out