Data Sets in Photoshop CS2

I know it's an old thread but I just want to provide some information for upcomer.

You shouldn't have more variables in csv file than in Photoshop. So you should clean your csv before import.

Save csv file with comma as the separator. 

Don't put csv files in a non-English directory or network storage.

Don't have any other symbol in the first line except the comma.

"could not parse file contain as a data set .data set 11 was incomplete "

what t is the problem

I spent 3 hours using above examples plus those from other theards like: Data Sets and still can't use a .txt / .csv file with more than only one column ie. variable name in first line, while values in next line(s). For ex. this one column sample works:

Numbers
one
two
three

but this doesn't work:

Numbers, Names
one, lorem
two, ipsum
three, dolor

when I use tabulator instead of coma it doesn't work too:

Numbers     Names
one     lorem
two     ipsum
three     dolor

Other combinations with tab / comma delimiters don't work too whatever used in .txt / .csv file (obviously ASCII encoding)

I used all available examples (they work for everyone), watched videos and was on Adobe tutorial. ...let's focus just on this:

a, b
1, 2

or

a     b
1     2

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Here are step by step how I tried it to make it done from beginning to the end:

• I created new photoshop document / opened already existing
• I added normal / text layer (as it doesn't work for background)
• In Variable Type panel of Image/Variables/Define I selected 'Layer 1', filled 'Visibility' box, then in 'Name' field I typed: a
• I switched to 'Data Sets' and clicked 'Import' button. Used 'Automatic' Encoding, left unfilled available boxes (however tried combinations with filled too), selected file (.txt / .csv) and after clicking 'OK' button each time was getting alert: "Could not parse the file contents as a data sets. There were too many variable names in the first line of the text line"

If I use a file with just one column, so variable and value(s) it works, but why I can't use more than one variable / values though EVERYONE with given solution can. What I am doing wrong?! (I can script it but want to understand what's bad)

I'm using CS6 Extended on Windows 10 if that changes anything. Can someone send me .psd and .txt / .csv file they works?

Plz follow this link Photoshop error "could not parse the file contents as a data set." - YouTube

and see the video. I hope that your solution is available here. Thank You.

EDIT [video has bad audio interference - moderator]

Hi All,

I thought I'd throw my two cents in to this discussion. Hopefully it will help someone chasing some answers to the error you get when trying to parse the csv file into data sets.

After building a test excel sheet then saving as csv I tried to import this data set into photoshop and got this message. "Could not parse the file contents as a data set. There were too many variable names in the first line of the text file."

After opening this csv file in text edit, I discovered the data had included a couple of spaces (which to me looked like a double comma) at the end of each line.

               Title1,Title2,Title3,Title4,Title5, ,

This turned out to be an operator error, as I had applied the space bar in a couple of columns without realising.

Simply removing these, and/or make sure your "empty" cells are actually empty. Your raw data should end on the last input data and nothing more.

               Title1,Title2,Title3,Title4,Title5

I was able to import the data set without any errors.

Hope this helps?

Andrew.