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Adam Sternberg

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  1. On 6/27/2025 at 7:56 PM, Adam Sternberg said:

    @Jeremy S, I've had issues with the 7Zip compression also.  Take a look at your RAM usage in Task Manager.  Browsers such as Firefox and Chrome tend to be RAM hogs, so consider closing them and other high-usage programs until the compression is done.

    I don't have a full solution, but that's been my observation, so hopefully it helps.

    Good luck.

    Never mind; I've seen it take over 16 hours without completing (and that's with no browsers running), yet if I create the 7z compressed file by "hand", it takes 2 minutes.  Something is definitely wrong here (maybe the thread/process priority is too low?)

  2. On 6/26/2025 at 2:07 PM, Steven L. Dasinger said:

    If you do decide to upgraded to Pro (I think that has advanced find)

    It does.

    On 6/26/2025 at 2:07 PM, Steven L. Dasinger said:

    look at the Advanced Find Guide 'someone' put together

    CAN'T imagine who that was... 😁

  3. On 4/6/2025 at 11:28 AM, Adam Sternberg said:

    I discovered this is still a problem.  These titles (Archie and Friends (2nd Series) and B&V Friends Forever) are still being mis-categorized as individual one-shots.  The UPCs and indicias make it clear these one shots are really part of the appropriate series.  For example, the UPC for Archie & Friends: Level Up! 1 is 76281622336201911 and the indicia reads "Archie and Friends, No. 1 (#19), June, 2025".  These titles are causing several duplications in the database.

    FYI, @Mark J. Castaneda

    The data updates I'd submitted last week for this have been reverted by this week's update, so hopefully, the updates will be adopted soon.

  4. I discovered this is still a problem.  These titles (Archie and Friends (2nd Series) and B&V Friends Forever) are still being mis-categorized as individual one-shots.  The UPCs and indicias make it clear these one shots are really part of the appropriate series.  For example, the UPC for Archie & Friends: Level Up! 1 is 76281622336201911 and the indicia reads "Archie and Friends, No. 1 (#19), June, 2025".  These titles are causing several duplications in the database.

    FYI, @Mark J. Castaneda

  5. Using version v25.5.1.2236, backup files are disappearing when being compressed.  Worse, if automatically saving to cloud, the upload process gets hung (with nothing to upload).  However, if I turn off auto-compression, and compress it manually to 7Zip, it works fine.  For what it's worth, I do have a recollection of seeing this before, but have no idea how it was corrected.

  6. The various "What If...? Galactus Transformed..." titles are wrong.  The indicia for the Hulk title that came out this week is "What If...? Galactus:  Galactus Transformed Hulk?" (note the "Galactus:" and the question mark at the end).  I've tried to submit a content correction, but I'm posting here as a backup

  7. On 12/17/2024 at 7:23 PM, Mark J. Castaneda said:

    Thanks for the feedback. We do our best to describe out all the necessary details for variants; research and our user submissions do help fill in bits we may not have - all that is considered/processed in the indexing style we prefer. The huge challenge for us is the thousands of variants that come out on a monthly basis. With about 85% of comics being a variant of some sort, its super tough to get them all detailed out the way we'd like. Not to mention the publisher data we get from the start don't always have the variant details to begin with ?

    Is this why there are some many "skipped variants" in the database (for example, some title one week having 11/A, 11/B, 11/D, and 11/E issues, but no 11/C)?  I have to admit that's one of my biggest pet peeves, and I'd almost think it's not worth entering placeholders in the database until they're actually in-hand (but I get that's not practical given the scale of what comes out each week...)

  8. I didn't (yet) dig it out, but did look it up on GCD.  The issue in question is https://www.comics.org/issue/1739387/ (still named Batman Day Special Edition).  It's called out there as a reprint of Batman (3rd series) 16 (as Mark surmised), which is here: https://www.comics.org/issue/1671798/#1984648.

    One thing I note is that the page count for the story is the same (20 pages), so until I can dig it out of my stacks, I'd wager it is a full reprint.

     

  9. After last week's update, it was reported that Batman Day Special Edition was an obsolete title.  However, I can't find where the issue (2017) went to.  The UPC number is 76194135344900111.  A generic online search came up as Batman Day Special Edition 2017, so that's no help.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.

  10. On 8/23/2024 at 9:19 PM, Steve Dahms said:

    Greg,  I just did that and still nothing.  Maybe I need to wait until next week's update?

     

    Adam, How do I do this without a scanner?  I typed in the UPC in the search box and it didn't do anything.

    What Gregory said! ?  If you're not sure the search is working right, you can take a UPC you know is right that's already in ComicBase and copy-paste it into the search box.  You should definitely get a hit doing that, and it'll also help confirm the expected format for a UPC

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