Imported list doesn't update

The 0 is there on purpose because the default behavior should be to only update entries which you explicitly tell to be updated. This has a few advantages:

- If you only modify a few entries, there's no need to update all entries --> less stress for the servers
- If you changed something on your list and then import something, your list changes won't be overwritten, only for the entries you specified
- The "last updated" date won't change for all entries, just for the ones you want to update

Of course when you want to update all entries, then the 0 needs to be changed to 1 for all entries. This can be done very easily with the "replace all" feature that should be in every text editor:

Just replace all occurrences of <update_on_import>0<update_on_import> with <update_on_import>1<update_on_import>

@Luna i cant seem to find the update on import on my xml file in notepad can u help me ?

@liltarp Is it an xml file that you exported from MyAnimeList? Or did you export it from another website?

If it's from another website: it might not have the update_on_import because of a different structure from that other website. In that case you would need to use a converter if someone wrote one to convert the format from the other website into the MAL format. There are also some websites/scripts that directly export a list from certain websites and convert them to a MAL format. Overall this only works if the converter can also identify the correct database IDs for MAL which is not the case for all websites I think.

do you know any website that converts scripts in a suitable format that is able to be uploaded on myanimelist?
This is my script, which I exported from hianime.to

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<name>Interspecies Reviewers</name>
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<name>Shiki</name>
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<name>World Trigger</name>
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<link>https://myanimelist.net/anime/52830</link>
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<link>https://myanimelist.net/anime/57058</link>
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