Prospector - Backing Up the Hand History Database
Importing hands into Poker Academy Prospector is quick and painless. But as you start to approach millions of hands, the time needed to parse and import all the information keeps growing. It is a good idea to start backing up your hand history databases. This can save many headaches down the road.
Backing Up
Prospector Application Directory
All Prospector hand history databases can be accessed quickly by doing the following:
- Go To Start Menu
- Select Run
- Windows XP Type:%AppDir%\PA-Prospector and hit enter.
- Windows Vista Type:%AppData%\PA-Prospector and hit enter.
- This will launch windows explorer, and the Prospector data directory
It is very important to backup your databases regularly in the event they become corrupted or you lose the original hand histories. If this happens your data will still be available.
All folders in the Prospector data directory are database folders. They will either be named HHDB-1 or if you named them something different they will have that name.
Back these folders up to another drive, a flash drive, a cd-rw or a network share. I recommend compressing these folders first to save storage space.
Always remember to also back up your hand histories from your favorite poker sites. This is the original hard data and remains very valuable in the case of a database corruption.
Sam :: Sep.20.2007 :: Prospector Tips :: No Comments »
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