CSV Import Just Gives Column Error

  • I’ve tried several methods of making a csv file from my links but every time LL (Link Library) gives me the same error: Invalid column count for link on row

    I have never had good luck running csv files. Is there a way to import links from an HTML page into LL? It seems practical as LL is still running on the old WordPress Links plugin which used OPML. If you do move LL links away from the old WordPress Links could you give us more options than csv files for importing and exporting links? Delicious and other bookmark sites don’t use csv. It would be nice to have options to import with OPML and XML too.

    Ideally there is a way to fix the csv error, I hope. I’ve spent most of the morning just finding a way to get my links into csv. Currently my links are in Simple Links but I wanted to try LL again.

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  • Thread Starter thatgrrl

    (@thatgrrl)

    I’ve been trying to work around with file types but seems the links won’t save from one to the other, not all of them. Anyway, not sure what is going on but I can certainly set up link libraries and flush out more links as I go along.

    I bought your book. Looking forward to trying out my own plugin ideas and see what I can do. Not likely anything as detailed as this plugin.

    Thread Starter thatgrrl

    (@thatgrrl)

    I did it!

    I searched for help the last couple of days. Today I tried finding out where I could work with csv files. First one site had me download some Office clone software which was very bloated and then could not manage to even open the template csv file. Then I found a site which said Google Docs (and others) could do it. So, that’s where I went next. After more trial and error I discovered I can open your template file and then import the csv I saved from Simple Links. Mess around with the columns and delete some stuff… etc.

    In the end the file opened and brought all my links into Link Library. So far at least.

    Now I hope I can remember and do it all again for the other sites which have even more links and categories.

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