Hi Russell,

Russell Tiedt wrote to Michiel Broek:
RT> Hello Michiel.
RT> 

RT>  MB> I see a spelling error in the example:
RT> 
RT>  MB> for file in `ls` ; do
RT> 
RT>  MB> should be the right one.
RT> 
RT> Yep, it has been running for 8-9 minutes so far .... 

Oke.

RT>  RT>  MB>> (I should have added this to the faq)
RT>  RT>>
RT>  RT>> Might help someone else ....
RT>  RT>>
RT>  RT>> Will try,
RT> 
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 with it, 

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

That's were scripts are good for.

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

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

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

Ouch, but about 100 are good already.

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

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

RT> :-)

    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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