Hi all, I was faced with an annoying problem, which uncovered another annoying problem, and wanted to share my angst. While maintaining my large database, my computer was shut off. After restarting, and re-launching scid, I found that the si3 file had become corrupted, and scid would not load the database. It did give an error message about running scidt -N to fix the problem. I remembered that script from the old days of the original scid, and tried to run it. Then, I found out it did not exist. After a bit of hunting, I turned my attention to the Makefile, and found that scidt was no longer compiled by default (that has been the case for quite a while apparently, I guess that shows how often I have needed to use scidt on the Linux side, hehe). Anyway, I changed the "EXEC= " line in the Makefile to include scidt, and compiled a new scid. My questions (yes, there are questions :)) include: - is there is an option that can be turned on as a flag to the ./configure script, or whether one must always remember to edit the Makefile? - Probably a more important question is why scidt is not compiled by default? The assumption is that it has been obsoleted by the functions being performed via the GUI, but as this example has shown, that is not always the case. Also, the Windows package has a scidt.exe, which is there either by omission or commission :). - Lastly, and maybe most important for the cli-phobic (I am not one of those :)), is whether it would be a good idea to include a "Repair corrupted database" button in the Maintenance window, as a front-end to scidt (or to the individual repair functions, if that is more efficient programatically). Ok, have a good day, and thanks for a generally great program!
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