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Hi there,

I am trying to paste codes into the box and they look like each is on a line by itself. But then when I test it they all become one long code. I tried importing from Text Edit, had my brother make a text file on a PC and email me then I copied and pasted it, still didn't work.

I'm on a mac. Would that effect it? I don't want to have to go into the file and delete, return, after each code as that would take forever!

Thanks for your help,
Joe

There are differences in how plaintext files indicate a newline in Mac, Windows and Unix/Linux. You may want to try opening your brother's PC file on your Mac using the free TextWrangler program:
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

You can open the file in TextWrangler, copy from there and paste into E-junkie, and if that doesn't work, try using TextWrangler's command to change line endings before you copy and paste.

Tried Text Wrangler to no avail. Anytime I copy and paste into the box it puts them all together, even though at first it all looks fine.

The only way I have found to make it work so far is to delete return my list in the box, but that will take forever.

I normalized all Line Endings and even made them all windows line endings in Text Wrangler.
I tried codes with only letters and codes with only numbers.

Any other ideas?

So I tried copying and pasting on my brother's pc into the box and that worked.

I'm guessing then that stored codes copying/pasting on a mac is not possible?
Has anyone had success with it?

Thanks!

I'll ask one of our staff who uses a Mac to double-check, but so far as I know it should work fine. I think the problem may be that your source file was initially generated on a PC, but then subsequently sent to a Mac, opened and copy-pasted from there, so the line-endings got "lost in translation" when moving the file from a PC origin to a Mac.

Did you try the free TextWrangler program I suggested? That's a bit more sophisticated at handling cross-platform newline characters properly.

Thanks Tyson,

Curious to see what they say. I tried Text Wrangler and made it format it to Unix and then to Windows and no luck. I actually got the list from Random.org and just copy and pasted from there originally.

I think the issue is with the Mac in the copy and paste and it reformatting it to Mac line breaks and then the box on e-junkie not recognizing the Mac line breaks.

Look forward to seeing what they say. I did get it to work on a PC but that's problematic as I have to go to the PC to do it instead of just on my mac.

Thanks again!
Joe

Our resident Mac user just confirmed that copy-pasting a list into the stored codes field appears to keep the newlines after initially pasting-in the list, but it does not in fact retain the newlines after clicking Submit to save changes. This happened even if she copy-pasted directly from a "native" TextEdit file created on the Mac itself, and also when she copied directly from output generated from Random.org/strings/.

Funny thing is, Mac newlines these days are the same as Unix newlines, since Mac OS X is based on a derivative of BSD Unix, and our server is also running a Unix-style OS. I'm wondering if it may be a Flash problem or limitation, since our Admin panels are all Flash-based. I'll bring this matter to the attention of Development.

I've done a bit of research on this issue and have confirmed that the loss of newlines when pasting text from a Mac into Flash (which our Admin panels are based on) is a known issue with the Flash plugin for Mac itself -- see bug report filed with Adobe here:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-780

I have passed this info along to our Lead Developer, to see if we can hack together a workaround before Adobe (hopefully soon!) fixes this bug in the Flash plugin for Mac itself.