Problem

When trying to run an Export profile, the process may finish with error message Invalid product and/or category data source.

This is known problem of connector versions 6.2.1.0 and older and is caused by illegal non-ascii characters in text strings (i.e. Product name, Product description etc.).

Solution

Workaround

In version 6.3.0.0 new directive was introduced to connector configuration page. This option is called Regular expression for illegal characters removal and allows you to insert hexadecimal representations of illegal characters, causing this error.

The problematic illegal characters you may find in this way:

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