http://coolblueweb.com/blog/importing-products-with-dataflow-profiles-the-basics/
Does your install hang or just respond extremely slowly when dragging and dropping categories in the Magento backend? Are you sick of seeing the popup loading icon? Fear not, a simple change can help avoid this annoying situation. It’s all to do with the Indexing, Magento will update the index every time you drag and drop.
To solve this problem, complete the following steps:
Remember to change back to automatic indexing after you’ve finished!
Are you constantly viewing incomplete order information in Magento’s order reports admin section?
First of all click the link at the top of the page titled: To refresh last day’s statistics, click here.
If this doesn’t work, go to:
Try running your report again and you should see any gaps now filled in.
If you ever need to have a sitemap for each store created under a single Magento installation, you will probably face an error about the unavailability of your specified path for the creation of the sitemap.
Regardless of the filename you may specify, you will get the following error all the time:
Path "mysitemap.xml" is not available and cannot be used.
As ever, we don’t have a clear error message leading us to a solution. Basically, what’s happening is that Magento wants to use the name sitemap.xml for each sitemap created. This is obviously a problem if you have two sitemaps.
The simple solution to this is to create each sitemap in a separate directory:
/sitemaps/site2/sitemap.xml
Relevant for users wanting to create a Magento Google sitemap in a multistore installation.
Can’t get rid of that pesky PayPal logo in your Magento sidebar? Follow these steps for a logo-less website.
Login in to your Magento admin panel and navigate to the PayPal configuration section:
This answer is depenant on using PHPMyAdmin (which is most of us).
It’s a common question and some people just live with these messages.
To remove them, simply navigate to the news section of your admin and either mark them all as read or delete all messages.