Batch editor....continuing problems!

Why in the world can’t I get this batch editor to work…it tells my all my items have been updated, when nothing at all has been updated, or it tells me nothing has been changed by that upate. I’m being VERY EXACT with my text copying/pasting. I couldn’t get the find/replace to work, so I manually addressed over 300 listings. Now I simply want to add an addendum with terms, etc., and it either tells me nothing has been added, or it updated all my listings, even though it hasn’t. This is BEYOND frustrating! Even trying to get it to change something simple in one listing won’t work. Oh, and tech support has been absolutely NO help, it’s like they don’t even read the question, just rattle off some quick, pat, and quite obvious answer that’s of no help whatsoever! Well that’s my rant, I guess I get to manually update over 300 items manually, again. This shouldn’t be this difficult!

asked over 8 years ago

2 Answers

Go to the Batch Editor
Select Text editing on the left
Select either of the “Add” text boxes and enter the text.
Click on the items you wish to add it to or select the box above the first item to select all on that page. Click apply button.
Do the same on each additional page.
Sometimes it may take a short time if there are others ahead of you.
When I am finished, I always to to ‘Add or Edit Items’ and click on the right button [Update Booth] just to be sure.
Hope this helps.

selected by Bonanza as the best answer

answered over 8 years ago

2 Comments

Old-TimeTreasures says: January 29, 2016

Thanks for your reply. So I finally got it to recognize some of my text, apparently Bonanza has some filters in place that won’t allow certain phrasing. But the added on text that I’m able to show up in the listing comes through without any formatting. Is there no way to add on formatted text?

Old-TimeTreasures says: January 29, 2016

I think I figured it out….at least it worked for one of my listings…crossing my fingers!

I have found that if you try to change more than one line of text at a time it will not take. Break it down and try it again doing smaller batches at a time. That worked for me

answered over 8 years ago

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