Hi Alexander, Wow. Thank you for your quick reply and clear explanations.
Comments and questions below. Please note my description of difficulties importing a recently-Scid-opened PGN into a newly-opened Scid database... On 6/02/11, Alexander Wagner wrote: >Currently you can not directly save to a PGN file. (You >actually don't want to in most occasions either. Scids >native si4 is much more efficient.) I agree. I want to open a single-game PGN, save to an si4 "MyGames" database, annotate it, save. >>None of the save menu items seem like what I want. >They are in fact, but if I get it correctly you try to use >them on the "wrong" database. I confess initial confusion about which database I was using or if I was using one at all. I like your suggestion below, to save the PGN into a database before doing anything else. >No need for the Clipbase to get involved here. This would >complicate things unecessarily. (Though it works, you can >import to the clipbase and then copy to your DB.) I may have encountered a bug in the Mac version where if I didn't go through the Clipbase first, the game disappeared from the target database when I double-clicked it. Unless I was hallucinating, I'll submit a more formal report later. Lets not get distracted by it. >Open the database of your games (say MyGames), then just use >Tools / Import File of PGN games. OK, that sounds like a sensible workflow. Thank you. >double click on the _database_ instead of launching Scid. >Your Finder should know how to fire up Scid with the DB in >question. Yes, that works fine on the Mac. >If you use the same bases all the time, you can create a shortcut / >launcher (I don't know how it's called in MacSpeak). "Alias" in Mac speak :) Good suggestion. Also, QuicKeys is a useful program on both platforms. >Alternatively, if you prefer to work through your file system with the >file open dialogue... Yes... >...fire up Scid by double clicking the PGN from your iPhone, you might >want to open "MyGames" in paralel ... and just drag your PGN database >onto MyGames database. This will also do the import mentioned above as >well. ...that is the way I'd like to work. However, while double-clicking does open the PGN in Scid, once I open the Scid "MyGames" database the PGN seems to disappear from Scid. At any rate, I can't find it. (Or, do you mean drag the PGN from the desktop? - but that doesn't seem to work, anyway.) Could my layout be preventing that workflow from working? - hiding the PGN? Getting to the bottom of this may be my key issue. >In all cases: key is to import your PGN from the iPhone to a >Scid database _before_ doing anything. OK, that is helpful. >Also note that the clipbase feels like a Scid database but it is only >temporarly in memory and never gets stored to the disk. Yes, I suspect many new users, like me, discover that the hard way. >Scid towards PGN (open them read only) and the Clipbase (temporary db >without storage). I think both concepts are quite wise, but probably >do not work as expeced in the first place. I agree with read-only PGN. I reserve judgement, pending more experience, on Clipbase saving. > >HTH :) It helps much. Thank you Alexander. Scid is excellent. Chess Assistant's bugs, deficiencies and lack of progress/improvement/fixes over years of sham releases have been exasperating. Its a blessing to have a fine alternative; and Mac compatibility is a lovely icing on the cake. My deepest thanks to the Scid contributors. All the best, Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
