Database question

[marcotte]

How can I tell where my hands are being saved?

I think I recently hit the limit for Access database size, so I renamed my old database and downloaded the hhdb.mdb file from the website and placed it in the Pokertracker folder. I assume this is an empty database. How do I begin logging hands into it? Is there something I need to do so it will point to that file? It still seems to be trying to log them into the old db file and I get error messages.

[ptrack pat]

If you are still getting database errors then read the second part of the FAQ, not the first...
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1377

[marcotte]

Sorry for my confusion, but:

Does this mean I don't use the hhdb.mdb file I downloaded to start a new database file? If not, how do I "start a new database using the File/Maintain Database Names window and then start importing hands into that."

When I downloaded the hhdb.mdb file, I assumed it was a blank database with all fields set up as needed. Then I set it as the default under File/Maintain Database Names. But now when I start Pokertracker I get error messages and can't seem to access the new db file. (Sorry, I'm at work now, so can't tell you what the error messages say.)

Am I supposed to use that downloaded file at all, or is there another way to start from scratch?

[ptrack pat]

The hhdb.mdb file is a hand history database file, it stores the text of the hand histories not the stats. You need to create a new stats database like it details in the SECOND part of that FAQ (click the help link at the top right corner of the File > Maintain Database Names window where it describes how to create new databases). You should not be using the Maintain Database Names window to point to the hhdb.mdb file, it will cause errors.