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01-21-2020, 05:49 PM | #1 |
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Updating in 2.5
Why doesn't it work? Why do we get "Error writing to file"?
After some research, I have a theory. I went through the Change List to see what the last updates to go through were. It was 12 June 2016, when IceTea added Vissia Trovato and made a batch of other changes. Those show up fine. The next update on the list was 16 June 2016, where he made another slew of changes. Those don't update on 2.5 nor any others from that day on. Looking at the Change List for 16 June 2016 I noticed something odd. Bear added three venues that day and they're showing in the fighter list. I looked through all 210 pages of changes and those are the only venues listed. I suspect the game is trying to add them as fighters then stopping the update and showing the error message when it realizes they aren't. I don't know what, if anything, can be done about it but that seems like a likely answer to why updates quit working in 2.5. |
01-22-2020, 10:07 AM | #2 |
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OK, I'm an idiot. I was thinking like a person instead of a computer.
I went into the config.ini and changed the time stamps for updates to 20200117, the date of the last update listed on the Change List. It worked! The latest updates loaded just fine. So, I figured we could skip over whatever file is causing problems by setting a later date. I switched to 20170101. Error, error, error. Tried 20180101. Error, error, successfully wrote biographies! At 20190101 I got success on all three. Now experimenting with dates to try and isolate the problem(s). |
01-22-2020, 10:45 AM | #3 |
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Fighters and RatingRecords work if you set the date in your config.ini to 20180516. Biographies work if you set the date to 20170217.
That means the Fighters/RatingRecords error is in the 5/15/2018 update and the biography error is in the 2/16/2017 update. |
01-22-2020, 06:30 PM | #4 |
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NOTE: The presence of problems on those dates do not preclude the possibility of other problems between then and August of 2015 when the new database went online.
There were only a couple of bio updates on 2/16/2017. Aside from some inconsistent spacing there's nothing apparent in what's shown on the Change List to suggest why either would be causing errors. Same story on 5/15/2018. Only a few updates, none with obvious issues. Of course I don't have database access, so I'm pretty limited in what I can see and even more so when it comes to doing anything about it. |
01-24-2020, 11:41 AM | #5 |
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TB2013 is unusable, but it does pick up the updates and it uses an identical file system to 2.5. I was able to use WinMerge to identify Fighters, RatingRecords, and Biographies that existed in the TB2013 files but not in the 2.5 files and copy them over..
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01-28-2020, 09:31 AM | #6 |
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TB2013 will add fighters without RatingRecords while 2.5 will not. The next step in this project was to identify fighters who show up in 2013 but not in 2.5. 73 such fighters were found:
x Angel Acosta Michael Arango x Jose Argumedo x Clive Atwell Teodora Bacheva Booker Beckwith Jessica Belder Nicki Bigwood Christophe Bizot Arlene Blencowe Robert Feliciano Bolonti Liz Butler Paul Butler Leroy Caldwell x Luke Campbell Yamil Caraballo Amanda Carriere x Jack Catterall Samuel Colombian x James Dickens x Daniel Estrada x Remo Fernandez Saxon Harrison x Joksan Hernandez Kaelon Hollon Kumiko Seeser Ikehara Marina Isami Mika Iwakawa x Albert Johnson x Saul Juarez Tewa Kiram x Andrey Klimov Juliane Koffnit Konni Konrad x Tomas Kovacs x Kristijan Krstacic Dmitry Kudryashov x Sydney LeBlanc Rey Loreto Peggy Maerz x Guadalupe Maria Antonia Maldonado x Eduardo Martinez Tony Masiarelli Esther Matshiya x Andy Mejias x Richie Mepranum Igor Mikhalken Ivana Mirkov Lillian Molala x Go Odaira Kumi Oishi Buangern Onesongchaigym Carlos Ortega x Warlito Parrenas Adela Celeste del Carmen Peralta Endrimar Pirona Angi Paola Rocha x Fahsai Sakkreerin Olga Salas x Edgar Santana Bintou Schmill x Michel Soro Melania Sorroche Nina Stojanovic Vanesa Taborda Kei Takenaka x Keith Tapia x Silvia Torres Ana Cristina Vargas Fernando Luna Velez x Jayson Velez Felix Verdejo Khlaid Yafai The ones marked with an x had a tbdx file I found posted on the boards, and so could be added to your database manually. Whoever has access to the database should reupload these rating records. |
02-17-2020, 03:03 PM | #7 |
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where do you go to change the config ini?
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02-17-2020, 03:15 PM | #8 |
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In windows the config.ini is at:
C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Out of the Park Developments\Title Bout Championship Boxing 2.5 You might not have the Roaming folder, Out of the Park Developments could be directly under AppData. The parameters you need to change are at the very bottom of the file, under Web Options. Put in the dates listed above as YYYYMMDD followed by six zeroes. |
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We've had a few new glitches lately, but I think I've identified at least part of the problem.
I've been running updates within a day or two of them showing up on the change list on both 2.5 and 2013. The programs handle problems very differently. 2.5 gives error messages and stops updating while 2013 skips the problem files without telling you there's a problem. Neither added Edward Malave from back on August 9th but I set my config timestamps on 2.5's config.ini to the 10th and it's worked fine.....until today. Error/error/error. So I ran 2013. It worked but only picked up some of the adds. Specifically. Tony Yoka showed up but Bakole and Wallisch did not. So I went to the list to see if I could determine what the problem was. One thing jumped out at me immediately. Bakole and Wallisch both had Quote:
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So I'm thinking that leaving the external ID blank or at 0 when entering new fighters hangs up the updates. I can't do anything about it, but those of you who do updates (i.e. Ice Tea) should make a note of it and maybe go back and put External IDs in for Bakole, Wallisch, and Malave. |
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10-08-2021, 10:05 AM | #10 |
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From manually inputting the numbers myself, I know the extid is the box rec.com id number. Would that number cause a problem with the database?
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10-08-2021, 10:42 AM | #11 | |
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If you've ever looked at the fighter records under Default Data you'll see that the file names are three numbers, such as 16355_1946_1953. The first number is the External ID. The Rating Records have file names that are two numbers, such as 16355_194601. Again, the first number is the External ID. That's how the game knows which Rating Record(s) go with which fighter. The other numbers in the fighter record name are the start and end year of their career. The other number in the Rating Record name is the "valid as of" date. |
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10-08-2021, 01:01 PM | #13 |
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If the guys who do the updates have a search function for the database for every boxer who has an extid of 0, those numbers could be changed and the database could update properly.
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10-08-2021, 01:51 PM | #14 |
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I don't actually think this particular issue is that widespread. The original hangup from May 2018 came after an update with no fighter adds.
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10-08-2021, 04:32 PM | #15 |
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It looks like you have another update to test your hypothesis. The first boxer in this update (Michal Cieslak ) has a 0 for extid.
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10-08-2021, 05:47 PM | #16 | |
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I don't know how much IceTea reads the board. Might send him a PM. Last edited by pilight; 10-08-2021 at 05:52 PM. |
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10-09-2021, 05:56 PM | #17 |
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Another update. This one has Jamie Mitchell, who has a 0 for extid.
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10-09-2021, 06:44 PM | #18 |
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2.5 gave me error/error/error again.
2013 added Mitchell but gave her a bunch of extra ratings. Looked in the 2013 Import Data and sure enough there are several ratings records without external IDs. Gonna look now and see if I can determine who they belong to. |
10-10-2021, 09:58 AM | #19 |
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This morning's update has no fighters with a 0 extid.
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10-10-2021, 10:50 AM | #20 |
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