Based on the Lat/Long coordinates, it looks like the duplicate cities are based on the first entry for that respective city in the CSV. Looking in the SQL location table, a new ID is created for the city, though the slug stays the same for both versions.

Not entirely sure if this is related, but I had also setup 76 categories across 10 CPTs, which all seemed to have disappeared. I hadn’t looked in there before attempting the upload, so not sure if they had disappeared prior to this for some other reason.

Going to be uploading around 4,000 or so listings, so want to avoid trying to merge locations or other issues.

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key note for US sites…if you preset locations, make sure the state form matches…abbreviation vs. spelled out.

CTPs and Categories should be created before uploading a CSV.
Did you find the existing ones back?

Not sure what happened. …category names, slugs, default image, map markers….most of those “disappeared.” And that included CPTs that I wasn’t even trying to CSV upload into.

Later I discovered that a lot of the form field settings for the CPTs reverted back to default settings as well.

Actually spent around 6 hours the other night setting up all of the CPTs. That included time figuring out what all the settings did and the different settings and creating a master spreadsheet to make this mostly copy-paste–highly, highly recommend this for everyone!

Not taking nearly as much time to rebuild these, but still painful and this is going to be huge issue if these continue to disappear or something else is wiping them out.

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