Error during feed creation

[igavemybest]

FAILED
An unexpected error occurred. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Nothing in error log. Not sure what is causing this. Ghost products in the database?

[jmestep]

Was this Googlebase? Did you move the site? If so, the path for the feed to write to is stored in the database and might need to be changed.

[igavemybest]

yes, googlebase. I didnt move anything. Just started happening after removing items and adding others. It gets to about 64,000 items and then shows the error.

[draneb]

You know what... Well, I believe this was back in the 5.5 days but I would delete items and categories and products would pop up in the Orphaned Items list. I found that if there were any products in the Orphaned Items list you could not create a product feed. So you may want to look in there. I hope that's it.

[igavemybest]

Thanks, how do I find orphaned items and delete them? I am not familiar with this.

[draneb]

It's worth a shot to look and see if there are any orhpaned items.
In your Admin go to
Catalog >> Orphaned Items
and select the bullet for Products
if it returns any you can then assign them to categories
and then try running the feed builder again.