Duplicate hands

[y2johnk6]

This is kinda hard to explain, but whenever I start up the auto import for poker tracker, it seems like it is importing ALL previous played hands(even play money hands and hands from different types of games that PT doesn't support). It takes PT a long time to import all the duplicate hands therefor slowing down the importing of new hands.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a way so PT doesn't import all the duplicate hands upon startup?

[WhiteRider]

Make sure you have the 'move processed files to' option checked/enabled on the auto import window.
Let it run till it catches up - stop your poker site/close all tables, then stop auto import and it will move all the files it has processed.
Check the hand history folder and if there are any old HH files in there, move them manually to the processed folder.

After this, auto import won't have to read them again.
Make sure the processed folder is NOT a subfolder of the HH folder, but somewhere completely separate.

[y2johnk6]

Let me just tell you first off that I am a tournament player and most of my HH's are from tournaments. This might have something to do w/ the problem.

I looked in both hand history folders and noticed something weird. There are almost no hand history files in the Full Tilt hand history folder while there are tons of hand histories(mostly tournaments) from full tilt in my pokerstars hand history folder. It seems that all my graphs and winnings for full tilt are correct though.


I'm sorry, I don't really know what you mean by moving old HH files to the processed folder. Aren't the old HH's already in the processed folder? There are subfolders of each of the different screen names that me and my friends use. There is only 1 HH file in each of my folders and they are HH's from very recent tournaments.

I really appreciate you helping me. I'm so totally lost on this.

[WhiteRider]

I looked in both hand history folders and noticed something weird. There are almost no hand history files in the Full Tilt hand history folder while there are tons of hand histories(mostly tournaments) from full tilt in my pokerstars hand history folder.

You need to move these pokerstars hand histories out of the full tilt folder or it will have to read them every time.
Open this folder and the folder specified on the auto import tab as the 'move processed files to' folder.
Drag the old Stars files from the FT folder to the 'processed' folder.
Make sure this 'processed' folder is completely separate from all your hand history folders. It must not be a subfolder of any of them.

[y2johnk6]

Do I need to make a new folder to move all the processed files to?

It is still importing all the duplicate files right now, I don't think it will end.

[Peligroso]

It sounds to me like you might have set your "Processed files" folder to your PokerStars hand history folder, which is wrong and will cause a constant loop of importing hands. Go to the "auto import" tab and make sure that the "Move processed files to" is checked, but make sure that the folder is C:\Program Files\PokerTracker 3\Processed (it can't be located as a sub-folder to any of your hand history folders). You can move all your hand histories to that location manually if they've already been imported so you don't need to wait for it to import all the duplicate hands again.

[y2johnk6]

Thank you very much sir. The problem is fixed.