Problems with Wish List

LordHardDrivenLordHardDriven Posts: 937
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I'm not sure if this is a problem anyone else is having and/or if it is, if Daz is aware of it, but yesterday I discovered my wish list was reduced from almost 450 items down to 12 items. That wish list had been in the making for years and would be virtually impossible to reproduce. Am I just S.O.L. or is Daz aware of this as a site malfunction that they are working on repairing?

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  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    Open a support ticket. It does happen occasionally; I got bitten by whatever the bug is a year or two ago. DAZ did manage to partly restore my wishlist, but note that this might not get everything — I ended up with a handful of items I'd already bought, and I'm fairly sure the final count was a dozen or so less than it was before the wipe.

  • andrew-2201221andrew-2201221 Posts: 3
    edited December 1969

    Good to know, I got hit with the same thing yesterday. Thanks.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,925
    edited December 1969

    There seems to be a few new bugs- this past week, I can't stay logged in. Also, when I went to different sections from the scrolling banner, the "hide what I own" got unchecked. So seems to be a few bugs. They come and go, but the login is irritating. Sorry to hear about your wishlist.

  • LordHardDrivenLordHardDriven Posts: 937
    edited December 1969

    Well my wish list as I said was years in the making, I even still had some Generation 3 era items there that might not even be available any more so if they do restore it then maybe those ones that aren't available any more will just disappear? Perhaps that's why yours came back seeming "less" then before, SpottedKitty?

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,281
    edited December 1969

    AFAIK items that are no longer available in the store will disappear from your wishlist anyway.

    It's easy to save a copy of your wishlist from your browser btw, just save as "complete webpage". Just be sure that you have selected "All" for Items Per Page, and that the page is fully loaded before you save.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,281
    edited December 1969

    Taozen said:

    It's easy to save a copy of your wishlist from your browser btw, just save as "complete webpage". Just be sure that you have selected "All" for Items Per Page, and that the page is fully loaded before you save.

    Hm, guess I was a bit too fast here, looks like they have changed the code so you no longer can save it from your browser. There may possibly be browser plugins that can do it though. Otherwise this one can:

    http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/inquiry_standard_edition.htm

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    Taozen said:
    Hm, guess I was a bit too fast here, looks like they have changed the code so you no longer can save it from your browser.

    Works here, using the current Firefox with no special plugins. The page isn't quite complete, some of the icons only show as weird little boxes, but all the important data is there. Which browser were you trying with?
  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,281
    edited December 1969

    Taozen said:
    Hm, guess I was a bit too fast here, looks like they have changed the code so you no longer can save it from your browser.

    Works here, using the current Firefox with no special plugins. The page isn't quite complete, some of the icons only show as weird little boxes, but all the important data is there. Which browser were you trying with?

    I tried IE11 and Chrome. Also tried FireFox now, looks like you're right. I just wonder where the pics are stored, they're not in the folder that's linked to the saved HTML file.
    --

    wl_ff.jpg
    456 x 647 - 126K
  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,281
    edited January 2015

    Well it appears that the pics are embedded into the HTML file, in base 64 format.

    It actually works with Chrome also I can see, I just didn't try to open the saved file because I could see there were no pics in the data folder. But it's doing the same as FIreFox, embedding the pics in the HTML file. Can't get IE to work at all though.

    BTW, the data are loaded dynamically so before you save the file you should scroll slowly through the whole page so all data and pics are loaded into the browser memory, before saving the file, otherwise there may be missing data. I did that when I saved it in the Firefox, and the page is complete, no missing pics or data (over 1200 items).

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  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    Taozen said:
    BTW, the data are loaded dynamically so before you save the file you should scroll slowly through the whole page so all data and pics are loaded into the browser memory, before saving the file, otherwise there may be missing data.

    And I've just remembered this is exactly what I did with that test save. Not because I always remember to do it, but because the side scroll bar indicated my wishlist page was very short. I scrolled down to the bottom and saw nothing but whirly boxes that very slowly filled in as the page gradually got longer and longer — apparently my link to DAZ was going through one of its occasional RFC1149-compliance periods.
  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,281
    edited December 1969

    IE (in my case IE11) is definitely not suited for saving dynamically loading pages. Not only does it seem impossible to save the wishlist as either complete webpage or .mht, but if you try to save a pic manually from the page you end up with a 300+ KB .png file. Chrome and FireFox saves the pics correctly as .jpg files at about 35-40 KB.

    Btw, in all browsers the pic is 380x494 if you save it, so it looks like DAZ is just using some larger pics which are then downsized in the browser. Would probably load a lot faster if they used already downsized pics. My 1200 item saved wishlist (the HTML file with pics embedded) is about 28 MB with Chrome and 42 MB with Firefox. Takes a couple of minutes to load fully when retrieved from DAZ on my 20 Mbit connection.

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for all the info. Using Chrome, I used "Save page as..." and it seems to be saved okay. At least I've got something to work from if my list disappears.

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