[chirp_users] importing rows from a previous database

Glenn
Thu Nov 10 17:50:27 PST 2016


Tom,
I'm trying that, and the ones I want to check to be imported are grayed out.
Why would that be?
Thanks.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hayward" <tom at tomh.us>
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Subject: Re: [chirp_users] importing rows from a previous database


It brings up a prompt where you can select which channels you want to
import and where you want to put them.

Tom

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Glenn <glennervin at cableone.net> wrote:
> Won't it overwrite everything?
> Or would I make a copy of an old database, and delete everything except 
> what
> I want to import?
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Hayward" <tom at tomh.us>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 6:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] importing rows from a previous database
>
>
> You can do this with the File > Import tool, Ctrl-I.
>
> Tom KD7LXL
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Glenn <glennervin at cableone.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Initially, I had a friend load in my Baofeng UV5R from his database, with
>> some other program, not Chirp.
>> That worked fine, and then I started using Chirp on my Ubuntu, and with
>> great accessibility, I subscribed to Radio Reference and downloaded some
>> local stuff into my database, and all was good.
>> Then I noticed that I lost all my weather radio stations, they were in 
>> the
>> 80s.
>> I can go back to an old Chirp database and find them there, but I am
>> wondering if there is a way to import selected rows from the old database
>> and moving them into the new one, over-writing the ones in the new
>> database,
>> in the same row numbers.
>> I would like to learn to do this without re-writing them by hand.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Glenn
>>
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