I repeated the process for the 5 PGN files without any problem. The only
issue issue that could appear is a RAM shortage (I have 2 GB, and the
resulting base eats 700 MB).
Pascal
2009/10/10 Dale Hards <[email protected]>
> >Could you please detail the procedure to reproduce this ? What are exactly
> >the bases you use, Scid's commands entered since its startup, etc. ? Even
> >some screenshots could help. I just tried opening up ICOFY PGN files and
> it
> >works for me.
>
> Running SCID 4.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 from source (make install).
>
> SCID is in docked windows mode.
>
> 1. File > New...
> 2. File > Open...
> 3. In the above dialog, open up IB109A.pgn from the ICOFY base from:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/icofybase/ You can get all the pgns from
> IB109PGN.tar.bz2 on this site.
> 4. Once loaded go to Database Switcher. This window should be docked.
> 5. Drag-and-drop from IB109A.pgn to new db
> 6. This pgn copies fine.
> 7. Close IB109A.pgn in Database Switcher (right click and close)
> 8. Repeat these steps for all five IB109x.pgn files in ICOFY.
>
> Originally when I did this, the Database Switcher would do nothing when I
> drag-and-dropped the last four pgns into my new database. No windows, no
> errors - nothing. I had to try 5 or so times, and each time nothing happened
> until the Copy Games dialog appeared That's why I don't think a screenshot
> will really help.
>
> When I tried these steps again just now it worked perfectly, so it seems to
> be one of those annoying bugs that are hard to reproduce...
>
> Here's the info from Help > About Scid
>
> Version 4.0, September 2009
> Using Tcl/Tk version: 8.5.0
>
> Here's Help > Startup Info:
>
> "Your options file "options.dat" was found and loaded.
> Img package not found (tkimg). Some piece sets are disabled.
> Setting up audio move announcement...
> Move speech enabled - Snack sound package found
> Searching sounds folder for move announcement sounds...
> Found 30 of 30 sound files in /home/XXXXXX/scid/sounds
> Found 34 player photos in historic.spf
> Loading information from index file historic.spi
> Found 209 player photos in Photos_Dez_2007.spf
> Loading information from index file Photos_Dez_2007.spi
> Found 106 player photos in hudetz100.spf
> Loading information from index file hudetz100.spi
> tDOM package not found, disabling internal Xfcc support
> Checking for endgame tablebase files...
> No tablebases were found.
> Trying to load the ECO openings file...
> ECO file "scid.eco" loaded: 10359 positions.
>
> Startup completed.
> Scid has 44 online help pages; just press F1 for help!
>
> Also look at the online tutorial http://scid.sourceforge.net/tutorial/will
> always have the very latest"
>
> Apologies for spelling errors, I can't seem to copy and paste the text in
> the startup info window.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Dale
>
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