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Subject: Re: How to import games(pgn files) into a large dbase in cbase 7?

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 12:11:56 07/13/99

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On July 13, 1999 at 03:41:26, Shep wrote:

>On July 12, 1999 at 17:37:47, Steve Lopez wrote:
>
>>On July 12, 1999 at 15:23:24, Charles Unruh wrote:
>>
>>>How can one go about importing the games from multiple pgn files into a large
>>>Database without opening and copying each file?  I download TWIC every week, but
>>>long ago stopped copying each one into the dbase, now i have about 50 or 60 pgn
>>>files i'd like to copy into my large dbase, but opening and copying each file
>>>over would take forever.  In fact i dont see any option in Cbase to simply
>>>Import *.Pgn , into a dbase?  Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>>You can't. You have to drag and drop them individually into a new database.
>
>Hmmm, if my memory does not betray me, CB7 has an option to import all databases
>from a given directory.
>You copy the files you want to import into an own directory, say
>F:\pgn\myimport, then load this directory onto the CB desktop and use the
>drag-and-drop method on this directory, just like you would on a single
>database.
>At least that's how I recently imported all my >80 PGN files from SCCS into one
>big database...
>
>---
>Shep

This method is still a time comsuming method. Especially when you are added it
to a base like 2.6 mil games. Opening, indexing, etc for the large base cost
much time. I sometimes use this method when I receive lot's of CBH files but at
first I create a new base then add all files to this new created base and at
last copy the newbase to the large base.

concatenating pgn files can be done easily with:
copy a.pgn + b.pgn + c.pgn total.pgn

The best after you created total.pgn is to convert this base to CBF with another
utility than CB7 because lately I noticed CB7 screws up sometimes 4 digit year
numbers of PGN files to 2 digits or even 1 digit, like 17 of 7.

If someone is interested in the PGN I can dig trough my files and find it.

Steve: When comes a new update(bugfix) for CB7?

Kind regards,

Michel Langeveld



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