Here we go.
We add new products every week, maybe twenty odd one day, none the next two, maybe ten the day after. Like today we've added maybe thirty new products (some with images) and one new section. I do purging and compacting databases most days. In the last ten days I reckon I've been forced to do three separate refreshes because of the update being unable complete a number of times in a row. You get no indication this is going to happen, you only find out after about eight failed attempts at the update. Funnily enough, no thats wrong, its no longer funny, sometimes it does complete at the third attempt or something, but usually a complete refresh is the only solution. This, even with the cough, advanced ftp enabled, is taking two and a half (business) hours or so to complete.
Now. After failing to update a number of times this morning I've tried everything to avoid a refresh. I've purged, compacted, closed then reopened Actinic, rebooted pc, done a comact again. Basically everything I can do. But it still insists on failing to update fully, forcing us to do a refresh when we really do not want to do one. I've done my best on this although I'm no expert as you all know.
Why. I can understand when major restructuring alterations (adding, altering templates, doing work that affects every page, whatever) have taken place, but the adding of a few products within maybe two or three pages. Maybe we should limit adding items to a Sunday every week, and do a refresh straight after. Far from ideal, but it alows us to use Actinic during the business hours when we need it most. How are we supposed to get orders out the same day if the Catalgues getting refreshed all afternoon?
Made worse. As I, and many others, including some of the regular forum users, keep saying that the refresh takes so long because of the uploading of the images every time.
Workaround. I do realise that the pages, cat files, etc change and when you have a new site you need these uploaded but maybe its time we had a `part refresh` where it uploads everything except the images.
Do I have a problem of some kind that causes these `essential refreshes` or if not can we at least speed up the workaround which is the unavoidable refresh.
Please.
We add new products every week, maybe twenty odd one day, none the next two, maybe ten the day after. Like today we've added maybe thirty new products (some with images) and one new section. I do purging and compacting databases most days. In the last ten days I reckon I've been forced to do three separate refreshes because of the update being unable complete a number of times in a row. You get no indication this is going to happen, you only find out after about eight failed attempts at the update. Funnily enough, no thats wrong, its no longer funny, sometimes it does complete at the third attempt or something, but usually a complete refresh is the only solution. This, even with the cough, advanced ftp enabled, is taking two and a half (business) hours or so to complete.
Now. After failing to update a number of times this morning I've tried everything to avoid a refresh. I've purged, compacted, closed then reopened Actinic, rebooted pc, done a comact again. Basically everything I can do. But it still insists on failing to update fully, forcing us to do a refresh when we really do not want to do one. I've done my best on this although I'm no expert as you all know.
Why. I can understand when major restructuring alterations (adding, altering templates, doing work that affects every page, whatever) have taken place, but the adding of a few products within maybe two or three pages. Maybe we should limit adding items to a Sunday every week, and do a refresh straight after. Far from ideal, but it alows us to use Actinic during the business hours when we need it most. How are we supposed to get orders out the same day if the Catalgues getting refreshed all afternoon?
Made worse. As I, and many others, including some of the regular forum users, keep saying that the refresh takes so long because of the uploading of the images every time.
Workaround. I do realise that the pages, cat files, etc change and when you have a new site you need these uploaded but maybe its time we had a `part refresh` where it uploads everything except the images.
Do I have a problem of some kind that causes these `essential refreshes` or if not can we at least speed up the workaround which is the unavoidable refresh.
Please.
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