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i just had my games emailed to me, but i cant figure out how to make the text in the email into a file that chessbaselite will be able read, any help?

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Originally posted by TheDarkKnight
i just had my games emailed to me, but i cant figure out how to make the text in the email into a file that chessbaselite will be able read, any help?
Copy into Notepad, Edxor, or your favorite text program, and save the file with the extension .pgn

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ive tryd it with notepad and word, but adding ".pgn" to the end of the file name doesnt seem to be enough, am i missing something? i notice when browsing with chessbase it has *.cbh etc. as acceptable files, but i dont seem to be able to add the "*".

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Originally posted by TheDarkKnight
ive tryd it with notepad and word, but adding ".pgn" to the end of the file name doesnt seem to be enough, am i missing something? i notice when browsing with chessbase it has *.cbh etc. as acceptable files, but i dont seem to be able to add the "*".
did you remove the .txt or .doc etc when you named it a .pgn? You need to find the file AFTER you name it and remove the existing extension and add .pgn...

Also, did you try just pasting the text into chessbase?

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Originally posted by TheDarkKnight
ive tryd it with notepad and word, but adding ".pgn" to the end of the file name doesnt seem to be enough, am i missing something? i notice when browsing with chessbase it has *.cbh etc. as acceptable files, but i dont seem to be able to add the "*".
* is a wildcard character, meaning "*.cbh" can represent any combination of letters and numbers followed by .cbh.

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not sure which of the little things i did with chess base and the files worked, but i got it to work, guess i had to save it as "all files" or something. thx all:-)

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Originally posted by TheDarkKnight
guess i had to save it as "all files" or something. thx all:-)
I almost mentioned this little quirk of Notepad, but sometimes it is better to learn things on your own. If you don't choose "all files" in the "save as type" it will add the .txt extension.

.cbh files are created by, and viewable only with ChessBase. With the full version of ChessBase you easily can convert PGN files to ChessBase format, which is necessary in order to enable all the search and data organization features for which ChessBase is famous.