RE: bookwhere

["Cameron Afzal" <rafzal>]

Success!!!
Simply renaming the *.txt file to *.dat did the trick.  Thank you.  I
must have done this long ago, but forgot when I upgraded to 5.004 to
do this step.   

TO:  NotaBene homeoffice
I line in the help file explaining this would be helpful to Ibidem
users, not yet familiar with the power and grandeur of Bookwhere.



On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:44:34 -0600 (CST), John C. Berg wrote:

>Cameron,
>
>1. When you append, you should choose "bookwhere records" - the "ibidem
>records" choice is meant for importing records from another ibidem database.
>
>2.  The "wrong file format" message might mean that the file to which you
>exported records did not have a .dat extension.  As I recall, the first time
>I exported from Bookwhere the program suggested a filename with a different
>extension--I had to change it.  After that, it has always suggested the
>last-used name and location as the default.  This is just a guess, but if
>your export file has a different ending (other than .dat), I suspect that
>that is the problem.
>
>I also find that the default export folder of Bookwhere is different from
>the default import folder for Ibidem, but I imagine that you dealt with that
>one already.
>
>I am curious, so please let me know if this solution works!
>
>Yours,
>
>       -John
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