I had my laptop die last year; fortunately I had backups of data.
I just got around to reinstalling Chess Base on my new laptop, and was trying to get my folder that I had transcribed a lot of my old OTB games opened in the new program. I see how to open a database from another location, but for the life of me I can’t figure out on the old chess base folders where my old games are. Everything seems to be folders by year and month, with files labeled by their day; I can’t find anything labeled “My Games” (which is what the folder title that I used to open before.)
The CB database interface is maddening. Not every database necessarily has an icon: you may find it by browsing via Windows Explorer.
Would expect to find it in a place like
"C:/My Documents/ChessBase/Bases/[YourGameDB Name].* "
You are going to need every darn file with the name of your personal database. It’s good to make CBV and PGN copies of your personal DB every so often and back them up to cloud. Good luck!
I backed up everything in the Chess Base folder; I wonder if I can get away with just replacing the current chess base data folders with what I backed up, or if that will cause an error.
That isn’t the problem. I DID copy the files to another source. I’ve now reinstalled Chess Base to my new computer, and I’m trying to figure out how to restore my personal games which I had entered. The folder structure seems to list everything by date, and not by the one database that I had created for my games.
If all those folders are inside one big folder, couldn’t you just open that folder from Windows, and perform a Search for all files (within that folder, including sub-folders) containing your name? The names of the players are probably included with each game.
Try doing a search from within windows for *cbh files in your backup. I only have cblight installed, but that it the file extension it uses for its’ databases. I’m wondering if you maybe didn’t store your databases in the chessbase folder on your old computer and so when you backed up that folder you actually didn’t backup your database.
I started opening every *.cbh file that was saved.
It turns out that when I opened a file named 2007_11_20_Tuesday.cbh, that my games were in it and the title “My Games” came up in the list of databases. I don’t know why it didn’t save the file as “My Games.cbh” in the first place, but I’m just happy to have all of my games back.