Hello Michiel.

22 Jan 05 12:45, you wrote to me:

 RT>  MB>> Tell me if it goes well, then I will add this into the faq.
 RT>>
 RT>> Like I said above, it is still running, and I am reasonably happy
 RT>> with it,

 RT>> is
 RT>> not a total solution, but it does the donkey work.

 MB> That's were scripts are good for.



 RT>> How will it handle dupefiles, exit on dupe, skip etc.?

 MB> In the same area they will not import, or they overwrite. I gues the
 MB> first. It is also good to run mbfile check when you are done.

Noted thanks ...

 RT>> Okay, worked a treat, got 120 files imported, unfortunately, about
 RT>> 20 or so don't have file_id.diz so I will have to do those
 RT>> manually ...

 MB> Ouch, but about 100 are good already.

Yep, I didn't sort them first, like I should have ....

 RT>> Like I said, I am reasonably happy ... 
 RT>>
 RT>> Now I know I can move them into my filebase easy enough, will
 RT>> check each file, add a file_id.diz if missing, then move it to a
 RT>> temp dir and "adopt" it. :-)

 MB> That's a solution or manually type in the description on the mbfile
 MB> adopt commandline. You should need to do that for the .exe files too.

For the *.exe files, I think making a manual file_id.diz and then zipping them 
is a better long term solution.

Russell

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