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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#1: Jun 7th 2013 at 9:55:31 PM

I've been doing some work on the character sheet for Superman lately, and have encountered a problem. The folders won't close. Initially I thought that there must be something missing from the folders, but nothing seemed to be wrong. So, in the interests of testing if there was anything wrong, I copied one of the none working folders to a different character sheet (I've since deleted the copy, don't worry). It worked fine on the other character sheet. When I repasted it to the Superman sheet, however, it refused to work. I've since tried a few other things. I've played with the formatting, I've cut and recopied the entire character sheet. Nothing is working, and the folders still will not close.

Help please.

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#2: Jun 7th 2013 at 10:43:51 PM

Maybe the page got too big?

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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#3: Jun 7th 2013 at 10:50:21 PM

[up]That shouldn't stop the folders from closing, should it? Not to mention that the various Batman subpages are as long or longer and yet they have no difficulty opening and closing. Though I don't pretend to be an expert.

EDIT: Given that folders are supposed to shorten the length of the page, wouldn't their stopping working when the page gets too long defeat the purpose of the function?

edited 7th Jun '13 10:53:34 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

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#4: Jun 8th 2013 at 12:10:36 AM

There's a known bug with folders that causes them to break when they reach a certain size. Most likely that's what's going on. The best solution would be to split the page. Actually, considering the character count, the page should be split anyway before it breaks completely.

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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#5: Jun 8th 2013 at 6:16:59 AM

[up]Would that cause all the folders on the page to break, or just the ones that are too big? I can understand the villain folder breaking, but the others? One of the folders only contains Superman, and another only contains a few alternate versions of him.

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#6: Jun 8th 2013 at 6:18:45 AM

If one folderr is too long, all of them break.

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#7: Jun 8th 2013 at 8:56:56 AM

Superman, so I can take a look at it.

EDIT: Yeah, the page is over 450K characters and is badly in need of splitting. I would suggest sandboxing up splits between heroic and villainous characters and see how that balances out the character counts.

edited 8th Jun '13 9:01:17 AM by Willbyr

AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#8: Jun 8th 2013 at 4:34:29 PM

[up][up] & [up] Thank you both. I'll work on splitting it sometime tonight. Given how many pages Batman and Green Lantern are broken into, it seems right that Superman gets a split as well somehow.

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