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Snippet Too Large

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Raistlindantilus

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I'm getting frequent sync errors for snippets being too large but it is background housekeeping data and not the data I've entered into the snippet.

The error doesn't identify the snippet or the topic but gives only some GUID that I can't use.

It's also very difficult to get support on this issue and causes a problem syncing my realm from the PC I work on to the PC I use during the game.

Does anyone have any strategies or suggestions?

Last time I found the topic by noticing the performance hit when navigating that topic and recreated it from scratch which solved the problem, but now it is back again and I don't notice any similar performance hit on any recently edited topics.

The first time I had this problem it manifested in an old topic I hadn't touched in ages so it could really be a needle in a haystack at this point and is not necessarily tied to any topics or snippets I've recently edited.
 
If you do a full export of your realm to an XML file, then you could do a manual search in the generated RWexport file in order to find which snippet it thinks is too big.
 
kbs666 said:
Are you pasting PDF's into snippets without stripping format?
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No, I always ctrl + alt + v and strip formatting. Some really really old topics may exist before I started that but those have never been the source of the problem.

The amount of visible data in the problem snippet has always been very small, the corrupted large data is in the background and invisible and with only the GUID from the error message its very hard to find.
 
Farling said:
If you do a full export of your realm to an XML file, then you could do a manual search in the generated RWexport file in order to find which snippet it thinks is too big.
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I have the RWexport file but I'm not sure what to do next. Is there a walkthrough somewhere?
 
Farling said:
If you do a full export of your realm to an XML file, then you could do a manual search in the generated RWexport file in order to find which snippet it thinks is too big.
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I think I figured it out. I have the rwexport open in a text editor and I can see the GUIDs next to every snippet. I think I can find it from here:

PS: YOU'RE AWESOME AND LONE WOLF DEVELOPMENT SOULD HIRE YOU!! YOU ACCOMPLISHED IN ONE FORUM POST WHAT WEEKS OF WAITING ON SUPPORT COULD NOT!!!
 
Farling said:
If you do a full export of your realm to an XML file, then you could do a manual search in the generated RWexport file in order to find which snippet it thinks is too big.
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YES!! IT WORKED!!!

This is going in my permanent bag of tricks. So happy I can fix this issue myself now.
 
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?
 
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.
 
Farling said:
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?
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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.
 
Exmortis said:
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.
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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.
 
Sounds like some issue with the DB.

Had you crunched the DB before this happened? Deleted a realm? Anything else like this.
 
kbs666 said:
Sounds like some issue with the DB.

Had you crunched the DB before this happened? Deleted a realm? Anything else like this.
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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 :-(
 
Raistlindantilus said:
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 :-(
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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?
 
kbs666 said:
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?
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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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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