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! >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > 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]. >>> > To post to this group, send email to mnemosyne-proj- >>> > [email protected]. >>> > 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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