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Subject: Re: SAVING BOOKS -- CHESS BASE

Author: Alex

Date: 23:03:04 07/05/03

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On July 06, 2003 at 02:00:53, Alex  wrote:

>On July 06, 2003 at 01:38:09, margolies,marc wrote:
>
>>opening books in chess base format are larger than other kinds of databases.
>>First can your book fit on a floppy? Second, have you tried to move the files
>>which you desire to back up in the windows explorer a9 or merely inside of fritz
>>gui)? Third, an advantage of moving large files using windows explorer is that
>>you can compress them first (like zip,man) also we do not know how much ram your
>>machine has but if it is a low amount and you have the fritz gui loaded and
>>maybe fritz engine with some big-ass hashtable then gosh you might not have a
>>large enough buffer to move that tree file!
>>Hope I helped, marc
>>Indeed  When I loaded the book file on to disk it did not ask for a new disk and APPEARED to complete the task.  I used the Windows Explorer to save from the fritz gui to My documents and then tried to reload it into the fritz Gui (8) after I deleted the book but it did not read it.  I wonder If I have to rename the book as perhaps the Fritz GUI retains remnants of the old file?  befuddling...!  Thaks for your help. ALex. BTW I have a WIN ME 512 Ram 1.6 Intel machine.
>\
>>On July 06, 2003 at 01:23:27, Alex  wrote:
>>
>>>Hmmmmmm........... I have spent hundreds of hours concocting my own opening book
>>> (No - it is NOT a book analyzed to death by chessbase engines to beat Fritz or
>>>any other chess base product..... it is simply my OWN opening ideas..........
>>>However I am finding it incredibly un-doable  to save a book from a fritz 8 GUI
>>>or from my documents to the A: drive floppy disk which can then be reloaded back
>>>into Fritz after I deleted the book from the Fritz program (Fritz 8) for
>>>purposes of testing the procedure.  Is this Chessbase hanky panky to protect
>>>thier programs from prepared books or is this just not a feature of the program?
>>> If so how does one protect one's created books from hard drive crashes??  Alex.



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