Anyway to get my PT hands back ?

[Llanlad]

Hi all ..

My HD went belly up over the weekend and ive had to download PT again .

Ive managed to redo the auto rates and hand importing etc .

But i have no history whatsoever ... all my processed hands where saved on my external HD ... and i still have them ... but how can i get the stats off those hands back on my PT ?

cheers

[Fumseck]

In PT

File / Auto Import Hand Histories ... Choose your site

Select Generic

In the Load from File(s) box, click on:
All text files in folder (sub-folder included)

Click Configure
Click Add Folder

Select the folder where your files are

Click OK

Click OK in the main window and it should import.

[Fumseck]

If you have a lot of files, it can take a long time. Be patient

[Llanlad]

I will just do the ipoker network for now .. !

thanks Fumseck

[Llanlad]

ok ... tried this ..but no hands are being imported .

I checked the file and there are loads of hands there ..

Confusion reigns !

[Fumseck]

In this example the files should be in the "F:\PS" folder.

Does that help?

[Fumseck]

You will also have to click on "Force Import" in the other window that will open. I forgot to mention this...

[Llanlad]

Mine are saved in the E drive under processed hands ..

when i click OK on the generic setup page , i then get auto-import HH / tourny summaries page and its starts looking for hands ...

and yes .. i did try the force import option

[Fumseck]

It's not working

[Llanlad]

Nope .. still not working .. but ive emailed PT support .. I will let you know what they say .

Ty for the help

[Misunderstud]

Llanlad, do you mean you've still got all your hand histories (in a folder), or you've still got your databases PTRACK.MDB and HHDB.MDB? You can't import databases through the import window, but you should be able to simply overwrite the ones in your new installation folder with the old ones from your external drive. (And, even if you do have all the HHs, this would be quicker.)

If you have more than one MDB (PTRACK2.MDB etc.), just create new empty dbs in the new installation and then overwrite the new files with the old ones.

If you've switched from XP to Vista, you might have to do some other stuff, too. See here.

[Llanlad]

[Llanlad]

I might have figured it out .... or i might have buggered it up big style !

This kinda makes sense ..

Ive gone to ipoker auto import and changed the HH folder location to my processed hands file on the external HD .... and then force import .

Its in the process of importing 610 files from there ... so its taking a while ...

The plan after is to change this back to the normal HH folder location ..

[Misunderstud]

[I started this before your last post, but I'll post it anyway]

I'm assuming then that you actually have all the individual session files, with names like "101620071928401_HH20071016 Io IV - $0.50-$1 - Limit Hold'em.txt" (to take a PokerStars example), yes?

You must have thousands. The problem could be that you're just not waiting long enough - it's going to take ages to import them all. Or perhaps PT just can't read that many hands all at once.

Presumably you have separate folders for each site within your Processed Hands folder? Try an import from just one iPoker site, preferably one where you don't have too many hands.

Open PT. Click the ip icon at the top. You'll probably get an alert that no folder is selected. Click OK.

In the import window, click Hand History Folder Location.

In the window that opens up, click add folder.

Browse to E:/Processed Hands/iPoker/Titan or wherever it is that you have those files with the .txt extensions stored. Highlight it and click OK.

The file E:/Processed Hands/iPoker/Titan should now be in the configuration window. Click OK to close it.

The file E:/Processed Hands/iPoker/Titan should now be showing in the import window next to the Hand History Folder Location button. Click Force Import.

If that works, repeat the procedure with the other iPoker sites. Then add the other sites in the same way and import the rest of your hands.

When you've done all the importing, you'll need to go back into the configuration window and change all the Hand History Folder Location file names to the files on your C drive where the hands are going to be stored in the future. You'll also need to add locations for future hand histories to be moved to after they've been processed.

(You might as well use your E drive for this, so you'll still have them should lightning strike twice, but a better solution would be, when you do your backups, to write them to your E drive. The only hand histories you'll need to keep then are those that have been written since the previous backup.)

[Llanlad]

thanks misunderstud ..

I do have seperate processed folders for each site .. and all im doing at the moment is NoIQ .

Unfortunately .. i have 40k hands at this site ... and its taking a while

In fact ... its still importing !