Hi Peter, Many thanks for your rapid explanation.
I have been through my wordlist and deleted all the answers to the questions. It does, in fact, contain 378 words (so I have lost one somewhere in the import). So I apologize for that. The 675 number confused me and I was sure my wordlist was longer than it actually is. However, to answer your points: - The text file I am importing from only contains two columns separated by a tab - the format is *source word - tab - target word(s)*. It is as simple as it could be - I am not using any cards from earlier versions of Mnemosyne and my text file does not contain 3 columns - I am not using anything at all from Anki So the question still remains why this apparently totally arbitrary assignment to card types upon import? As I said above, I am importing from a totally uniform, tab-separated, 2-column text file. So why is the program assigning some cards as front-to-back and some as Vocabulary? This creates extra work in having to reassign card types by using the "change card type" function and should not be a necessary step. It seems to me there is a significant flaw in the import process from text files? Thanks for your further thoughts :) Ed On Sunday, 14 September 2014 07:43:59 UTC+1, Peter Bienstman wrote: > > Hi, > > If your text file contains a line with three columns (e.g. from > Mnemosyne's 1.x three-sided cards), Mnemosyne will automatically treat that > as data for a Vocabulary CARDTYPE and will create two SISTER CARDS from > that data, one dealing with recognition, and the other with production. If > you come from Anki, you're probably familiar with the fact that data from a > single 'fact' is used to create multiple 'linked cards', so the principle > is exactly the same. > > If you don't want e.g. recognition cards, you can indeed convert them to > Front-to-back only cards (which will delete the recognition card and keep > the production card), but another option is 'activate cards' and then > simply deactivate the recognition cards. > > As for cntrl-a not selecting all cards in the browser, this is a > unfortunate side effect/bug of the UI library I use: to speed up display, > not all the cards are loaded into the browser at once, but progressively > once you scroll down. Cntrl-a selects only the cards that the library had > already loaded. > > Hope this clarifies things. > > Thanks for the feedback, and if you have suggestions on how to improve the > documentation, feel free! > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto:mnemosyne- > <javascript:> > > [email protected] <javascript:>] On Behalf Of Ed > > Sent: 14 September 2014 00:38 > > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > > Subject: [mnemosyne-proj-users] New bugs > > > > So I made a new database - then imported 675 new cards (front-to-back > > vocab) from a text file. > > > > 596 of the new cards became classified as "Vocabulary" (298 Production, > 298 > > Recognition); the remaining 79 were classifed as "front-to-back". > > > > Under "Browse cards" I selected the Vocabulary ones only (596 cards), > used > > Ctrl + A to select all... > > But I soon discovered Ctrl + A wasn't selecting *all* the cards, only a > chunk of > > them, so I scrolled down to the bottom of the list, selected the bottom > card, > > scrolled to the top of the list, selected the top card, and pressed > Shift to > > select them all. > > > > Then I used the "change card type" option by right-clicking, selecting > to > > convert all the cards to front-to-back. > > > > This still didn't work. Out of the 596 cards, only 377 were converted to > front- > > to-back. The remaining 219 had simply disappeared!! > > > > So I want explanations for: > > > > - Where those 219 cards have gone > > - Why most of the cards were erroneously imported as Vocabulary, and not > > simply front-to-back (I shouldn't have to change the card type every > time I > > import from a uniform tab-separated text file) > > > > Just when I thought I was getting the hang of this program these bugs > come > > up... > > > > * Update: I have just repeated the above process twice and got exactly > the > > same results! > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > > To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj- > > [email protected] <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/af3df679-8864- > > 4194-9350-08efa25253e2%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/af3df679- > > 8864-4194-9350- > > 08efa25253e2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=foo > > ter> . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. 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