.SL File Splitting into txt Files (Killing CPU and Dropbox)
Bought a few lists recently and have them in a file in Dropbox to share across my servers. These past 3-4 days it's killed my computer and is slowly killing Dropbox. I got out of memory on my Dropbox account, 7GB!! so deleted some old stuff, but the .SL files from the lists are being split into their respective .txt files. At the moment there are 900 in my DB folder, with 9600 to go!!! This is mental, is this normal? I can't remember it doing it before. I've tried removing them and starting again but the same is happening.
Each engine has it's own txt file now, but I thought the .SL file was essentially a zip file for SER so it's compressed and SER sorts it out when it's imported.
I'm going out of my mind here, is it normal or not? What have I done wrong?
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there all in KB's...even the super large ones
As you know, the lists from us come as a compressed .sl file that only gets unpacked (or at least should only get unpacked) when you import it into a folder that you specify in SER's global advanced options. If yours are unpacking themselves automatically, then that's very odd to say the least.
The latest Red list .sl file should weigh in at about 4,080kb and the bundled zip with the guides at 6,260kb, so shouldn't take up too much space.
@JudderMan - I'm not sure I fully understand the problem. I think you bought our list, so I will operate under that premise.
You imported the list into an empty folder, then you created a path to that folder in Main options using something like Identified, submitted or Failed. Then you did not check the box, correct? These three folders should only be "read only". The only box that is checked is "verified" because that is the only folder where links should be written.
Lastly, you cannot ever share the verified folder between servers - or all hell breaks loose. So each server has its own separate folder and path to its respective verified folder, correct?
As an aside. I joined Bing Rewards, and now have 100GB free cloud storage with OneDrive. In case you didn't know, OneDrive (Microsoft) now owns DropBox and every other cloud storage service on the planet. They are all OneDrive divisions. You join rewards, answer some numb-nuts questions, do some searches on Bing, and in about 6 days, your 7GB free OneDrive cloud storage gets upgraded to 100GB free OneDrive storage. That is where I keep my SER files now, fyi.
Ron