SCID vs PC

I haven't tried them, but there may be pgn utilites that can split up large pgn files. (Maybe Norm Pollock's pgn utilities? Not sure.)

Funny, I can't seem to type anything here without it being in italics.

I guess the idea is to split up the one large pgn file into a number of smaller pgn files, then convert them to a number of smaller scid databases. Then I think it would be trivial to drag-and-drop the smaller scid databases into one large, master scid database.

Please be relevaAs usual, EscherehcsE's help is spot on.

Large PGN files DO take a very long time to load and converting them to the program's native format is definitely the answer.  They will load almost instantly.

I've converted pgn files, with the command line utility, that contain millions of games.  However, according to my batch file folder, I've done so simply by creating a text file with the proper command, and giving that text file a "bat" extension.  

After doing so, when you double-click this file with File Explorer, Windows recognizes it as a batch file and runs the utility.  So in this case there is no actual need to load the command prompt, which I know is scary for some, who weren't raised on DOS like me.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Scid vs PC-4.92\bin\pgnscid.exe E:\Chess\pgn\million.pgnnt, helpful & nice!

What is the command line utility, and more importantly, which is the proper command? How do I transform a pgn into a text file (txt)

Wow, I don't know who gave us this tip, but it really works. I just converted a pgn file of over 2.5 million games. <big grin>

The command line utility he referred to is pgnscid.exe.

That was my tip and I'm wondering why my post was deleted.

However, this "batch file tip" shouldn't solve his problem.  It's only an "easier way" to run the command line utility, which he already did.

Didnt you delete it?

I was able to copy it before it dissapeared. I have tried to open pgn with note pad but it says it is too big to be opened. I think that Scid vs Pc is another failure of program. Even if that DOS attempt would have worked, it is not a user's job to start writing in there (many dont know how), the 200.000 games limitation is a bug or programming problem that must be fixed. I think I will have to keep using Arena though it is a little bit slow for big databases until someone comes up with something useful. I have tried Lucas Chess too and it works perfectly (instant load, no limit of games in pgn, etc) except that the databse doesnt tranpose the moves, which is a big issue to me.

Using the batch file method, the only glitch I noticed is that the progress bar in the DOS window doesn't work. (I don't know if that's fixable.)

@SkyMarshall, create a text file in your bin folder, and copy this line into it:

"C:\Scid vs PC-4.14\bin\pgnscid.exe" UltraBook.pgn

(You might have to add a carriage return at the end of the line, I'm not sure.)

Save the file, then rename the text file and change the extension from a .txt extension to a .bat extension. That should do it. Then all you have to do is double-click on the bat file.

No, I didn't delete my post.  (At least not intentionally.)

Funny... Firefox and Windows 10, which I downloaded late last night, won't allow me to post without the post being in italics.  (And it won't allow me to turn the italics off.  This new Microsoft EDGE browser appears to be okay, however.)

Anyway, I'm curious... how much RAM do you have on your system?

I THOUGHT my command line utility from a text file trick was on my Scid vs. PC tribute page. 

http://www.edcollins.com/chess/scidvspc/index.html

However, I see it is not.  Maybe I will add it.

I am sorry I dont understand. You mean by create a text file, an empty one? If you mean a txt file from the pgn, the computer wont allow me because it says it is too big. If is is empty, then, when you say rename it, rename it to what? to ultrabook? This is too weird to work, isnt it?

MrEdCollins, I have 1 GB of RAM running on Windows 7, that means that Windows 7 takes 0,95 to be able to work, and the rest is to run the programs...

The text file you create will have one line in it:

"C:\Scid vs PC-4.14\bin\pgnscid.exe" UltraBook.pgn

Hit ENTER after the line, when you enter it.  Name the file convert.bat

1 GB of RAM?  That's it?  That can't be right.  Well, maybe it is, but I thought Windows itself required more RAM than that.

What will happen when i quit a group while playing a team match in it?

Ok, I have done so, but I am afraid the result will be the same. The window started working and disappeared before I calculated it should have done so, and now, in Scid vs pc it says File/Open/ the new created file si4. error opening index file. What I think it happened, it is that it got stuck at the 200 k game because it took more or less 2 minutes and a half which is what has been taken all the time I've tried, the file isn't completed, and now of course, it won't open. 

Doing this, after all, is the same that I have already done before, just a new path like it has been said here. I was hoping the result would be different, but I still cannot do it :(

I think I am going to cry now. Oh by the way, yes it is 1 GB of RAM, it is one of those useless laptops, 

Ed, I noticed when using this batch file method, the progress bar in the Command Prompt window doesn't work. Do you know any way to fix this?

I'm wondering if it IS your 1 GB of RAM that's causing the error message. I just tried the pgnscid converter program WITHOUT the batch file, and it was able to successfully convert a 2.5 million game database. (I have 4 GB total RAM.)

No.  In fact, I wasn't even aware the progress bar didn't work.  However, later this evening when I get home I will do some experimenting and see what I might be able to figure out. 

Executing the utility via a batch file or executing it without the batch file SHOULD be the same thing, I'd like to think.  I like the batch file method because I can save that little text file and it's then easier for me to remember what I need to do and what the format is.  (I don't convert files very often and because of that, it's easy to forget the syntax of the command-line parameter.)

Look at this thread in other site

http://kirill-kryukov.com/chess/discussion-board/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7852

they complain about the same exact number in which my computer fails to continue. If it was due to 1GB, every time I try it should stop at a different number, very close but different, because the processes that are running at that moment. I dont think it has anything to do with that. The problem is that I cant figure out what it is! 

I have done the same process in a 4 GB computer much more sofisticated than mine and the problem is the same. As you can see in the pic I posted before, it says Round name limit of 200. 000 exceeded, whatever that means. So it is not the 1 GB what makes the problem. Do you guys say that you could do it with a database of 2 million games? How weird and awful for me...