Thanks Peter.

Here's the text file.

Regards, Ed 


On Sunday, 14 September 2014 16:33:37 UTC+1, Peter Bienstman wrote:
>
> Please send me the txt file, I'll have a look at it. 
>
> Peter
>
> On September 14, 2014 2:34:34 PM CEST, Ed <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> 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 a s 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] [mailto:mnemosyne- 
>>> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed 
>>> > Sent: 14 September 2014 00:38 
>>> > To: [email protected] 
>>> > 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! 
>>> > 
>>> > 
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