Author: Allen Lake
Date: 17:40:04 08/03/02
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On August 03, 2002 at 16:52:59, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On August 02, 2002 at 21:17:08, Allen Lake wrote: > >>On August 02, 2002 at 13:51:57, William Penn wrote: >> >>>(I'm running W98se/IE6.) >>> >>>--------------------------- >>>Scid problem with PGN files >>>--------------------------- >>> >>>Scid (version 3.3) used to work OK in its operations with PGN files. However now >>>it apparently thinks PGN files are all "read only". It will not create a PGN >>>file, nor perform manipulations which change the contents of a PGN file. Here is >>>the error message I get if I try to copy games from a Scid database "mygames" >>>into an ordinary PGN file "game.pgn"... >>> >>>Cannot copy games >>>"mygames" -> "game.pgn:" >>>the target database (game.pgn) is read-only. >>> >>>However viewing the properties of the "game.pgn" file shows that it does NOT >>>have the read-only attribute set! I tried setting then removing the read-only >>>attribute for the PGN file, but it has no effect. Also I tried reinstalling >>>Scid, and that doesn't help. >>> >>>The only thing I can think of is that I installed Chessbase 7.0 recently, and >>>PGN files on my system are now listed as "Chessbase 7.0" type files. I tried >>>changing the association of PGN files from Chessbase 7.0 to another program, >>>such as Notepad (a text editor), but that doesn't help. Also, if Chessbase 7.0 >>>is the cause of the problem, then I may be stuck up the proverbial creek. >>>Chessbase 7.0 is not listed in Control Panel under Add/Remove Programs, so I >>>have no way to remove it cleanly. >>> >>>What to do?! >>>H9 >> >> >>Are you using the "Export current game" or Export all filter games" menu items >>under the Tools menu? Each of those items has an "Export to PGN" option. >> >>Scid has always loaded PGN files as read-only and you cannot add comments, >>analyses, or annotations to games contained in a PGN file. If you want to >>manipulate the games in a PGN file, you'll need to create a new database (under >>the File menu), then import the PGN games into the new database (under the Tools >>menu). After you do what you want to the games in the new database, you can >>then export the games back to a PGN file. > > >Shane has provided a utility to convert pgn files to Scid format files. It is >named pgnscid. From the command line you just invoke it with the name of the >pgn file e.g. pgnscid mygames.pgn. It will create three Scid format files with >the extensions .si3, .sg3, and .sn3. In this example they would be mygames.si3, >mygames.sg3, and mygames.sn3 > >Steve <whacks self on side of head> I always forget about pgnscid, since I rarely use it. Users on UN*X and Linux systems also have the sc_import script for importing PGNs into a Scid database and the scidpgn script to export games from a Scid database to PGN.
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