Author: John Merlino
Date: 09:53:25 03/23/01
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On March 23, 2001 at 07:10:11, Slater Wold wrote: >On March 22, 2001 at 17:36:18, John Merlino wrote: > >>On March 22, 2001 at 08:56:38, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>I played a game against CM8K last nite, and saved it as a CMG (on accident) to >>>further review today. Well, I brought it up in Chessmaster, analyzed it, and >>>then thought I would get a deep anylasis with Junior. So I hit SAVE and then >>>typed the file name I wanted, and then clicked PGN. It will not save it as a >>>PGN! No matter what format you choose, it will save it as a CMG over and over >>>and over! >>> >>>Got any ideas? >>> >>>Slate >> >>I cannot reproduce this error. Let's go through the steps. >> >>You unintentionally saved a game in CMG format. Try loading that game. Then, >>press CTRL+S to bring up the save dialog. There will be a default name in the >>"File Name" section, and "Chessmaster Games (*.CMG)" will be selected in the >>"Save as Type" section. Change the text in the "File Name" section to the file >>name that you want, but DON'T add the ".PGN" extension at the end; just put >>something like "Me vs. Chessmaster". Now, change the "Save as Type" selection to >>be "PGN Game Files (*.PGN)" and press the "Save" button. That should save the >>game as a PGN file. >> >>jm > >Yup, exactly. And guess what? It saves it as a CMG over and over and over. >Remember though, I analyzed the game too. So therefore; I saved it as CMG, >closed CM, opened it later, brought the game up, analyzed it, then tried to save >it as a pgn. And it just saves it as a CMG over and over. I am using Windows >2000, so perhaps someone with Win2k could reproduce the error. > >It was a 34 move game, so I just entered it manually into Junior, no big deal. >Thanks for responding though! > >:) > >Slate Ok. I'll look into it, and I'll respond on Monday. jm
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