Help converting a file from Genius (Mac native software) to Mnemosyne

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Idealistic Pragmatist

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Oct 4, 2016, 9:21:54 AM10/4/16
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Hey all, I'm hoping I can get some help from experienced Mnemosyne users. I have been a faithful daily user of the Mac-native software Genius for about ten years now, and so as I'm sure you can imagine, the flash-card file I've accumulated is pretty enormous. Unfortunately, the Genius software is no longer being updated (it used to be housed at sourceforge), and it doesn't work on the latest upgrade to OSX. For this reason, I'd like to switch to Mnemosyne. Unfortunately, though, when I try to import a tab-delimited data version of my old Genius file to Mnemosyne, I get an error reading "Badly formed input on line 28070".

Now, I have opened the file in a text-reader, and it looks readable and well-formed at least to the naked eye, so I'm guessing there's just some tweak that needs to happen to the file to make it readable by Mnemosyne? I'm hoping so, anyway. Is there anyone who could help me do that, maybe? I'd be really relieved to hear it, because otherwise, that's a lot of years of daily work down the drain.

Peter Bienstman

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Oct 4, 2016, 9:23:03 AM10/4/16
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Hi,

 

Have you looked at line 28070 of that file? What does it say?

 

Cheers,

 

Peter

 

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Idealistic Pragmatist

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Oct 4, 2016, 9:26:59 AM10/4/16
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Peter,

Thanks for your response. I'm honestly not sure how to look at line 28070 specifically--there are an awful lot of lines in the file, and they're not numbered. Any advice on that?

Jennie

Op dinsdag 4 oktober 2016 07:23:03 UTC-6 schreef Peter Bienstman:

Hi,

 

Have you looked at line 28070 of that file? What does it say?

 

Cheers,

 

Peter

 

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Hey all, I'm hoping I can get some help from experienced Mnemosyne users. I have been a faithful daily user of the Mac-native software Genius for about ten years now, and so as I'm sure you can imagine, the flash-card file I've accumulated is pretty enormous. Unfortunately, the Genius software is no longer being updated (it used to be housed at sourceforge), and it doesn't work on the latest upgrade to OSX. For this reason, I'd like to switch to Mnemosyne. Unfortunately, though, when I try to import a tab-delimited data version of my old Genius file to Mnemosyne, I get an error reading "Badly formed input on line 28070".

Now, I have opened the file in a text-reader, and it looks readable and well-formed at least to the naked eye, so I'm guessing there's just some tweak that needs to happen to the file to make it readable by Mnemosyne? I'm hoping so, anyway. Is there anyone who could help me do that, maybe? I'd be really relieved to hear it, because otherwise, that's a lot of years of daily work down the drain.

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Peter Bienstman

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Oct 4, 2016, 10:03:04 AM10/4/16
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Hi,

 

Certain editors show the line number. Not sure which program to recommend on Mac though, as I’m a Windows user..

 

Cheers,

 

Peter

 

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Peter,

Thanks for your response. I'm honestly not sure how to look at line 28070 specifically--there are an awful lot of lines in the file, and they're not numbered. Any advice on that?

Jennie

Op dinsdag 4 oktober 2016 07:23:03 UTC-6 schreef Peter Bienstman:

Hi,

 

Have you looked at line 28070 of that file? What does it say?

 

Cheers,

 

Peter

 

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Hey all, I'm hoping I can get some help from experienced Mnemosyne users. I have been a faithful daily user of the Mac-native software Genius for about ten years now, and so as I'm sure you can imagine, the flash-card file I've accumulated is pretty enormous. Unfortunately, the Genius software is no longer being updated (it used to be housed at sourceforge), and it doesn't work on the latest upgrade to OSX. For this reason, I'd like to switch to Mnemosyne. Unfortunately, though, when I try to import a tab-delimited data version of my old Genius file to Mnemosyne, I get an error reading "Badly formed input on line 28070".

Now, I have opened the file in a text-reader, and it looks readable and well-formed at least to the naked eye, so I'm guessing there's just some tweak that needs to happen to the file to make it readable by Mnemosyne? I'm hoping so, anyway. Is there anyone who could help me do that, maybe? I'd be really relieved to hear it, because otherwise, that's a lot of years of daily work down the drain.

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Oisín Mac Fhearaí

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If you can find the file in Terminal (command prompt), you could do something like this:

sed "28070q;d" broken-file.txt

And you can probably do this if it "looks" okay but may have missing or extra tab characters, for example:

sed "28070q;d" broken-file.txt | hexdump -C

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