On 3/26/2012 4:37 PM, Otto Jørgensen wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:28:27 -0500, Betty Young Bray > <bybray@frontiernet.net> wrote: > >> I have imported a folder from BK 5 into BK 6.5.5. This was a database >> that I used on BK 5 years ago. My problem is that the text files did not >> import. There are no picture files. How can I get the text files into >> this BK 6 database? The text files are not in the text folder. One of >> them is like this: G:\BK5\OLDPEND\text\F15.txt >> Any help would be appreciated. This folder has over 200,000 people. > As the path from BK5 via the text files surely was not according where > you did put your BK5-database and the externalfiles accorind to BK5 in > you location of BK6., your will prberly have to copy and paste all > information into BK6 database. > I'm sure you have no database for BK 6 in G:/..... > If you have get a new try and place every file according to what you > have for BK5 and try again No, I don't have BK 6 in G. It is an old database and all of the text is contained in the main folder, and not in the text folder. Copy and paste is an option. Thanks

In message <4F71061B.3000005@frontiernet.net>, Betty Young Bray <bybray@frontiernet.net> writes: [] >No, I don't have BK 6 in G. It is an old database and all of the text is >contained in the main folder, and not in the text folder. Copy and paste >is an option. Thanks [] (I assume you've done the 5 to 6 conversion that is built in to 6.) If all the text (I assume you mean separate text files, not embedded text) is in the same folder, the facility (I think appeared at some version of 6) to do a global change on path might be of use. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "When I was young I used to scintillate now I only sin 'til ten past three" (Ogden Nash) [via Andy Breen]