Use software that offers resampling, not just resizing or enlarging. If not, you can probably enlarge the 400-px photos enough to meet ebay’s current photo requirements if the original photos were crisp. Keep looking you may find other copies that are still the original size. If you find your photos, but they’re only 400 pixels on the long side, they’ve been down-sized by a Turbo Lister flaw. Look for a folder that is not in your Documents folder or in your Program Files folder, and you may find your photos. If you don’t see the Turbo Lister Data folder, search your hard drive for “eBay” or “Turbo Lister”. Turbo Lister’s photo files can become gigantic, with multiple copies of your listing photos. If there are several user files and you use Picasa (or another image browser that show photos from subfolders), add the Data folder to Picasa’s library so you can scan the photos without having to open every single file folder. You can copy these to another folder, or browse to the photo’s current location to choose listing photos. Although you don’t want to change anything in the folder for your normal Turbo Lister user profile, it may contain photos for items that no longer exist in your Turbo Lister inventory. Each of these folders holds up to 99 numbered subfolders, each containing photos.
The Data folder contains a folder for every user profile ever registered with Turbo Lister on this computer. Missing photos? Check Turbo Lister’s secret photo cacheĮvery photo you’ve ever used with Turbo Lister on a particular computer is probably in one location. If not, don’t worry about it-grab your descriptions and move on. If you found your descriptions but no photos, look at other other instances of the same title to see if any still have photos attached. Tedious, and you have to find the photo location separately. Open each listing and copy-and-paste the description.
If you sell various product lines, you can filter your listings by keyword and export an index and individual descriptions for each product line separately. Double-click on an html file or enter the file path in your browser’s address window to view the description. From the export window, choose Turbo Lister format (csv) and click “Options”, then “Export item description to separate field(s).” You’ll wind up with an index (csv) file you can open with Excel, and a folder of numbered html files with the individual descriptions.