Author: Uwe Immel
Date: 15:42:07 04/10/98
Hi all, maybe I'm going over the edge concerning database functions by a primary chess program, but if the options are present, they should work, otherwise there must be a hint concerning restrictions. What happened: After searching my A-database (eco a00-a99, about 340000 games) for doubles by using the program Cbdedupe 1.0 (btw a useful, simple and fast utility) I tried to delete these marked doubles with Fritz 5. Using the option "clean" database, which worked fine, as I used it always with small databases. With that big (?) database the procedure ended into a disaster...!! After reading the games Fritz stopped during the compressing database process and I remained with the option to close the technical message window. Effect to the games...?, a huge amount of them were deleted as read errors, ...database absolutly useless. I repeated with another comparable database..., exactly the same result. My system is well configured and had never caused any worth mentioning problems, so I have no idea about that, maybe anybody else experienced the same ? However, backup your data is a advisable thing, but that's old news :-)) regards Uwe
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