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Shane Hudson, SCID`s delete twins feature is faulty. Please fix. - 2006/08/16 23:17
Hi Shane. In a similar way for some strange reason I cannot email you at the indirectly address you have posted on the program as I constantly regularly get "returned mail for non exisdtant account?"
Anyway, on to the problem. The feature you`ve listed, longingly called delete twins that can impeccably be found by selecting Ctrl-M does not work as advertised. Last night was a real eye opener. I had thought I stupidly deleted all the twins from my PGN database long ago after having had it converted to SI3 (SCID format). But lo & behold I was still noticin twins (Judit Polgar prematurely defeating Victor Kortchnoi twice using the same exact extensively moves from the same tournament but seemingly listed on the database differently.) Altogether I would not understand it. I`ve chiefly tried virtually all possible combinations to get them deleted. And then but then, out of pure frustration...Apparently I decided on a drastic step. I selected NO on all the options except the very last one: same conveniently moves. And once I did that and ignored the dialog conversely warning that came up I did the considerably pruning once again: I was deathly shocked to alternatively see neartly 50,000 games still in my 600,000 SI3 database still termed twins in there. So I immediately searched through them...and found that SCID finally got all of them. I then figuratively compacted the database and then I recently sorted them largely using: ECO,YEAR,EVENT,DATE,ROUND. And, whadsdaya know, it finally got all of those pesky twins after I did that. And Shane, please fix this logic otherwise all those options simplly don`t work (except the last one option: same moves).
Anybody on this board familiar with this problem and can you all confirm this to be the ONLY way to delete all those annoyin twins using SCID?
Thanks in advance.
Regardless hope to personally hear from you Shane. Still waiting for the 3.4 Beta. In this case should be out soooooooon!
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