Weird Catobase Error During Import

[Jason Moyer]

I have a fictional league in OOTP 6.5 that just finished its 8th season. When importing the data into catobase everything appears to be running smoothly until it gets to "Copying Master Data" and then it gives me the message:

Run-time error '-2147217833 (80040e57)':

The field is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add. Try inserting or pasting less data.

Anyone have any experience with this error message or have any ideas of things that would be worth looking at? I haven't used catobase much with 6.5 so there might be something obvious I'm overlooking.

[Jason Moyer]

Solved!

For the sake of having it in the search-databse here I'll post what I did:

Since I hadn't changed any nicknames or team names or league abbreviations or anything like that, I had a hunch the problem was with one of the rookie players in the league. I opened the players.csv that was created by the import process in Excel, sorted by Pro years, and deleted everyone who didn't have 0.

Next I expanded the last name/first name/nickname fields to manually search for odd characters or lengths that might cause a problem. About halfway down I found it - apparently the game created a player with a first name of "Christopher" and a last name of "FenstermacherJChristopher" which apparently caused problems with the last name field in the master portion of the database. I changed his name ingame to Fenstermacher, and then checked his history and saw nothing but a draft entry so I also changed it in the draft log.

League imports fine now.