Stars HH's not recognized???

[skillish]

I've been using PT2 for quite some time now and have become pretty proficient at using it but on this one I'm baffled...

I had my "save my hand history" on PokerStars off for a little bit, started playing, and about 10 min in realized that nothing was neing imported and remebered what I had done. So, I then checked the Save box in Stars client.

I had missed about 15 or so hands and requested them from Stars which they sent in .txt format. Beautiful so far!

When I attempted to import the HH's by downloading them from stars into a .txt file called PokerstarsHH.txt from the PT2 feature "select files to import" it keeps giving me a message saying..."File contains no Texas Hold'em hands or unable to determine what poker site this file came from."

????

I checked the syntax of this file with my other files that have imported fine and they are exactly the same.

I even checked the properties of the download and checked the allow tab that said that the file came from another computer etc etc...and it still didn't work.

Now they did include 2 games I was playing at once into the same .txt file but that shouldn't make a difference right?

This is a copy of juts one hand that says it cannot recognize...

PokerStars Game #16831234004: Hold'em No Limit ($0.02/$0.05) - 2008/04/18 - 23:04:45 (ET)
Table 'Spicer III' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Kintoer ($7.16 in chips)
Seat 2: Chopin3 ($5.95 in chips)
Seat 3: Eldan deKhal ($3.20 in chips)
Seat 4: twintykes ($8.80 in chips)
Seat 5: CaMiCho ($4.85 in chips)
Seat 6: dreamersons3 ($10 in chips)
Seat 7: FrAnWaN ($2.98 in chips)
Seat 8: Dealmeinplz ($5.34 in chips)
Seat 9: jello hello ($2.80 in chips)
CaMiCho: posts small blind $0.02
dreamersons3: posts big blind $0.05
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Dealmeinplz [4c 7h]
FrAnWaN: raises $0.15 to $0.20
Dealmeinplz: folds
jello hello: folds
Kintoer: folds
Chopin3: folds
Eldan deKhal: folds
twintykes: folds
CaMiCho: folds
dreamersons3: calls $0.15
*** FLOP *** [2h 9h Ac]
dreamersons3: bets $1.45
FrAnWaN: folds
dreamersons3 collected $0.42 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $0.42 | Rake $0
Board [2h 9h Ac]
Seat 1: Kintoer folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Chopin3 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Eldan deKhal folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: twintykes (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: CaMiCho (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: dreamersons3 (big blind) collected ($0.42)
Seat 7: FrAnWaN folded on the Flop
Seat 8: Dealmeinplz folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: jello hello folded before Flop (didn't bet)

I'm baffled...please help.

Thanks for everything you do Pat!!!!!

Skillish

[ptrack mike]

I just copied and pasted this hand into a text file and imported it. Open your text file in Notepad. Use File > Save As... to resave the file and make sure the Encoding dropdown says ANSI. That is the only thing I can think of that may be the problem.

[skillish]

Thanks ptrackmike. I think it may have been a problem with PT sorting out 3 sessions in the same text file because what I ended up doing was copying and pasting and literally saving every single hand in individual seperate text files and then importing all of them into PT2 and it worked.

What a HUGE pain in the you know what though! lol

My fault of course. I never should have shut off the save hands feature in Stars client in the first place.

Thanks Man!

Skillish