Author: Andy Tenne-Sens
Date: 12:16:04 03/03/00
I've notified Chessbase about the following problem. It occurs when I delete games in a database and then apply "Tools | Clean up database". I have all my data files in subdirectories of "C:\~\". I adopted this convention years ago to simplify backing up my work. Thus, my Chessbase files are in the directory "C:\~\Chessbase". However, I found out that, unfortunately, if the path has the tilde character, then the "Clean up database" function crashes my system. As an experiment I tried putting the bases under "C:\~Chessbase\" and the system still crashed. I was able to reproduce the problem on two computers. The problem is easy to work around: don't have "~" in the path name. "C:\Chessbase\" works fine. However, path names under all versions of Windows are theoretically allowed certain non-alphanumeric characters such as "!" and "~". In this case, Fritz 6 does not conform to this standard.
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