Importing troubles

[rrosedelay]

No doubt when someone gives me the answer to this I will feel like an idiot, but it won't be the first time, so here goes:

Every time I update a new PT3 beta I re-import my hand histories. In my previous db (PT3.5) I had 406K hand histories, including 11K hands of my own. After reimporting for PT3.5 I have 272K hands, including just 6K hands of my own. I play on Full Tilt exclusively, and when importing I did two separate imports, using "Import from Directory" (with "include sub-directories" checked), one from C:\Program Files\Full Tilt Poker\HandHistory, the other from C:\Program Files\PokerTracker 3\Processed.

The reimport had a ton of duplicates (more than original hand histories) and, as I said, over 130K less hands.

I feel dumb about this, but I'm a first time PT user (used to use Poker Office) and am still figuring out how it works.

Thansk for any help...

[Josh]

Do you have any filters set? Try clicking the "Clear" button on the tab next to the "Filters" button.

[rrosedelay]

I did make sure I cleared the filters. And there are definately hand histories missing. I exported PT3.5 to another folder, and it is 410MB, then exported the newly imported PT3.6 to another folder, it is 275 MB.

Was there a need to re-import in the first place? I only do so bc that's what I gleaned we should do with every update, from reading the 2+2 thread.

[rrosedelay]

At this point I'm wondering if:

1) Is it recommended to re-import one's hand histories with every new beta; and

2) Does it appear that I imported correctly? (I did two separate imports, using "Import from Directory" (with "include sub-directories" checked), one from C:\Program Files\Full Tilt Poker\HandHistory, the other from C:\Program Files\PokerTracker 3\Processed.)

[Josh]

I'm guessing that although there were a lot of duplicates, the missing hands weren't in the files PT3 re-imported. The "Processed" directory doesn't store files you manually import, only those moved after auto-import completes.

As for did you need to re-import? Not for this last release, not unless you were experiencing problems with the previous beta.