Problem with Ladbrokes

[phenomius]

During the last 2-3 days PT has worked randomly w Ladbrokes. Earlier today I played a session and pt worked fine. Now when I try to import hands it just simply says "There are no new hands in the database." Earlier today I restarted my computer and Pt started working again. Now I took 3 hours brake and it stopped working.

Today I upgraded to 2.17.01i. version but it didn't help

[ptrack pat]

Using Windows Explorer, find the GameHistory.dat file that you have PT setup to read from in the Ladbrokes folder. Note the size of the file. Now play some more hands. Is the size of this file growing as more and more hands are being played?

[phenomius]

No it stayed the same. Plus there were 4 game history dat files below the normal one. GameHistory032508233711.dat being one of them. Plus two "dat journal files" which were very small in size.

[ptrack pat]

Close PT and the poker site. Go to this folder and rename the GameHistory.dat file to GameHistory_bad.dat. Then open the poker site software and play another hand. They should create a new GameHistory.dat file for you to continue to import from. Open PT and and the Prima auto-import window and you should be able to start importing again.

[phenomius]

Thx. It worked

[phenomius]

This same problem has resurfaced twice now. What is causing this ?

[WhiteRider]

Do you reset the DB (button on Prima auto-import window) frequently?
I play at laddies and see this problem occasionally too. It seems to happen mainly when it has been running for a long time, though this is just a feeling..

[phenomius]

I've used it once. The first time this problem occured I tried to reset the db. But that failed too. It said that it couldn't perform some "Access file" if I remember correctly.

[WhiteRider]

Yes, the file does sometimes seem to get locked up. I find that restarting PT2 (and making sure anything else that was accessing the DB is closed, such as killing any rogue PAH processes in the Task Manager) frees it up.

I'd suggest doing this reset frequently (I do it every time after I close ladbrokes), don't you find it takes a long time to read the DB when you first start auto-import, because it has to read every hand again to check whether they exist.