Hi Russell,

Russell Tiedt wrote to Michiel Broek:

RT>  RT>> Okay, worked a treat, got 120 files imported, unfortunately, about
RT>  RT>> 20 or so don't have file_id.diz so I will have to do those
RT>  RT>> manually ...
RT> 
RT>  MB> Ouch, but about 100 are good already.
RT> 
RT> Yep, I didn't sort them first, like I should have ....

You allways learn something new heh.

RT> 
RT>  RT>> Like I said, I am reasonably happy ... 
RT>  RT>>
RT>  RT>> Now I know I can move them into my filebase easy enough, will
RT>  RT>> check each file, add a file_id.diz if missing, then move it to a
RT>  RT>> temp dir and "adopt" it. :-)
RT> 
RT>  MB> That's a solution or manually type in the description on the mbfile
RT>  MB> adopt commandline. You should need to do that for the .exe files too.
RT> 
RT> For the *.exe files, I think making a manual file_id.diz and then zipping 
RT> them
RT> is a better long term solution.

That is a working solution too.

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

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