1 Reply by anselan

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sebi wrote:
anselan wrote:

I fixed this by deleting the record for "Ach! Hans, Run!", which was confusing in csv, and adding it manually later myself. Then there was no problem loading the file.

I did get your email and checked the file, it was indeed a row with an extra comma in there. Where was this csv exported from?

Hi, thanks for this. It was exported from Excel but I also edited some versions I tried with sublime text editor. Didn't seem to be possible to get the quotation marks and commas to behave in either tool, but easy enough to add the record directly afterwards. I suggest that upload instructions explicitly recommend excluding this card, and uploading it manually.

All the silly diphthongs and accents (AEther, Juza'm) etc are removed in your texts, and also some punctuation like exclamation marks in Kill! Destroy! I have no particular love of all them, but I think that Deckbox pre-processor should have capability to accept these if the import format is correct. The card _ is not accepted: instead it's ____, which is incorrect because much was made at the time that this was the shortest card name. Curiously, the only exotic character that you do accept is the (R) character in one of the Unhinged cards.

But the real ask is a correct, comprehensive list of all the world's magic cards, including promos, languages, foilyness, and variants within one set.

Thanks again,
Andrew

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2 Reply by anselan

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anselan wrote:

Yes I too have got this message:
"Error: The server encountered a problem trying to import your file. Please check that it is a plaintext csv file and try again."
I'd already spent hours removing the correct accents, punctuation & in some cases changing text in order to get the approval of the incorrect but picky Deckbox system. But clearly it's determined to reject me anyway, without any explanation of why now.
I will email my csv: please tell me what exactly is wrong.
Thanks,
Andrew

I fixed this by deleting the record for "Ach! Hans, Run!", which was confusing in csv, and adding it manually later myself. Then there was no problem loading the file.

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3 Reply by anselan

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9700377 wrote:
anselan wrote:

Just joined here today, and have loaded up my collection. The classification of promos seems a bit crude: in my own database I have a more refined taxonomy. e.g. what kind of media was a Media Insert inserted in? Also Junior Super Series seems to be missing - they are physically different from regular Super Series.

I think a lot of this categorization is taken from TCGPlayer. Do you just wish the labels were more precise, or are there actual ambiguities you're running into, eg. there's a card in both the Super Series and Junior Super Series with the same name that can't be distinguished under the current system? That is, there's only a real problem here if the name + set labels are not sufficiently unique for a given card.

Thanks for your reply.

I think mostly I am looking for a more detailed classification. Like I wouldn't describe the "Buy a Box" cards as "Media Inserts", which is how they are classified here. Magic Librarities imho has a better structure: http://www.magiclibrarities.net/rarities.html.

I think this merging can lead to overloading of name+set. For example: http://www.magiclibrarities.net/35-128- … tml#return shows a card I have which is Junior Series (not Junior Super Series - I misremembered). The card looks similar to https://deckbox.org/mtg/Slith%20Firewal … ting=23273 but if you look at the foil it says Junior not Super.

Does it matter? Well, if one is going to track all these wretched promo cards, one might as well use the best map.

Thanks again
Andrew

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4 Reply by anselan

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Just joined here today, and have loaded up my collection. The classification of promos seems a bit crude: in my own database I have a more refined taxonomy. e.g. what kind of media was a Media Insert inserted in? Also Junior Super Series seems to be missing - they are physically different from regular Super Series.

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5 Reply by anselan

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Yes I too have got this message:
"Error: The server encountered a problem trying to import your file. Please check that it is a plaintext csv file and try again."
I'd already spent hours removing the correct accents, punctuation & in some cases changing text in order to get the approval of the incorrect but picky Deckbox system. But clearly it's determined to reject me anyway, without any explanation of why now.
I will email my csv: please tell me what exactly is wrong.
Thanks,
Andrew

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