Feeds Importer Duplicate entries

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General Assistance

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Author:

Benjamin Rogalski

Issue/Request:

Hello,

I used Feeds Importer to import records from a CSV file. I only wanted the import to occur once. After I imported, there was only one copy of each record. The next day, each record had been duplicated, so I’m guessing that they were reimported. I had set “Periodic Import” to “Off”, so I’m not sure why this is happening. When I go to http://fesxfunds/import/funding, it says that it is currently importing and is 64% complete.

I know that an easy fix would be to delete the csv file from the remote server, but I don’t want to fill up the error log with messages when it can’t locate the CSV. I also don’t want to delete the importer, in case I need it in the future.

Thanks,
-Ben

Josue Rodriguez on September 24, 2015:

Hello Ben,

How many items are in the CSV file? It could be that the file is so big its taking time to import. Another issue I saw was that you don’t seem to have a unique identifier, which is what makes each node imported as unique and removes duplicates.

Josue

Benjamin Rogalski on September 24, 2015:

Hi Josue,

There are 380 rows in the CSV. When I do the import manually, it completes in about 20 seconds. After I do the first manual import, there are no duplicates, it is only after about a day, that it seems to import everything again, which I don’t want it to do. I just want to import once manually.

Thanks,
Ben

Josue Rodriguez on September 24, 2015:

Ok the best option would be to disable the feed importer. Let me take a look.

Josue

Josue Rodriguez on September 24, 2015:

Hello Ben,

I’ve removed the duplicates and disabled the feed importer. You should be all set now.

Josue

Benjamin Rogalski on September 25, 2015:

Hi Josue,

In my first post, I mentioned that I did not want to delete the importer, in case I needed it again. I just found out this morning that there was a problem with the data I imported and need to re-import.

-Ben

Josue Rodriguez on September 25, 2015:

Hello Ben,

The importer is not deleted. Its just disabled. All you have to do is go to Structure > Feed Importers and enable the imported for it to be available again. The reason its best to disable it is to prevent the periodic import.

Josue

Benjamin Rogalski on September 25, 2015:

Sorry, Josue. I just panicked for a second. Thanks for your help.

Josue Rodriguez on September 30, 2015:

No prob. Glad to help.

Josue