Snippet Too Large

[Raistlindantilus]

Originally Posted by Farling

I'm glad you found the "offending" snippet :-)

Notepad++ is my favourite text editor for XML. It can auto-format the Realm Works output into something almost human-readable.

Is it a particularly big snippet?

The snippet was just a picture and one sentence of GM directions.

It looked to be a lot of messed up text strings in the .xml file but not really sure what I was looking at there, but I think it was the problem.

[Raistlindantilus]

Originally Posted by Exmortis

I had this issue as well, 4 of my snippets in my campaign ended up with 20+ MB of data but only the few lines of text entered showed. No idea how it happened and why it did not show in the snippet but this tip from Farling is something I will too indeed need to remember.

Whats really odd is, they were some of the early snippets like months after I entered them, this happened.

I've had this problem 3 times, the last two times it was a recent snippet although they didn't have much data in them.

The first time though it was like what you experienced, it was a snippet I hadn't touched in months and months that suddenly one day became corrupted and too large.

[kbs666]

Sounds like some issue with the DB.

Had you crunched the DB before this happened? Deleted a realm? Anything else like this.

[Raistlindantilus]

Originally Posted by kbs666

Sounds like some issue with the DB.

Had you crunched the DB before this happened? Deleted a realm? Anything else like this.

No, nothing out of the ordinary. I compressed after I got the problem resolved.

My realm is huge....maybe too huge....getting sad that RW seems to be dying.

LW....where did you go :-(

[kbs666]

Originally Posted by Raistlindantilus

No, nothing out of the ordinary. I compressed after I got the problem resolved.

My realm is huge....maybe too huge....getting sad that RW seems to be dying.

LW....where did you go :-(

How huge? Hundreds of Gb? More importantly, from the perspective of a DB, number of topics/articles? Rough estimate on number of snippets with data?

[Raistlindantilus]

Originally Posted by kbs666

How huge? Hundreds of Gb? More importantly, from the perspective of a DB, number of topics/articles? Rough estimate on number of snippets with data?

Snippets with data has to be in the thousands somewhere.

My RWexport.xml file is about 900MB, in terms of hard numbers that probably the best estimate I can give.

[Farling]

You can find the number of topics by looking at the realm data on the realm selection screen.

[Raistlindantilus]

Originally Posted by Farling

You can find the number of topics by looking at the realm data on the realm selection screen.

1491 Topics/Articles

[kbs666]

You must have lots of images, hundreds?

My main realm has 7421 topics with I have no idea how many snippets but it has to be somewhere in 5 digits. It exports at less then 500Gb.

[Acenoid]

Wow these are grave news, sounds like some nasty bugs are hiding under the hood

But only few topics have been affected or is this happening constantly now?