[Lexicog] Shoebox merge and remove duplicates

[Nicholas Thieberger]

I use Text Wrangler (for Mac) which has a great compare files 
function that allows you to copy selected chunks directly from the 
changed file  to the master file.

There is a tool called Shoeshop 
(http://www.geocities.com/david_rowbory/) for merging Toolbox files 
that I have heard is good but I have not used it.

Nick


>I'm back on the Cheyenne reservation for a week of language work. Somehow,
>in the process of creating a smaller database for a school program, I lost
>track of my complete database with its latest edits. So I have now made many
>changes to a slightly smaller version of the complete database. I still have
>the complete database but it is not not up-to-date with changes made this
>week.
>
>Is there to automate a process of merging my current database with the
>older, larger one and end up with a new database which has all and only the
>database records I want? I don't want to manually delete duplicate entries.
>I've done that before and it's too much work with the size of my database
>now.
>
>I am willing to do a visual check using some compare-files software, if I
>can compare differences between two Shoebox databases. But the more
>automated the process can be, without losing data, the better.
>
>Thanks,
>Wayne
>-----
>Wayne Leman
>Cheyenne dictionary online:
>http://www11.asphost4free.com/cheyennedictionary/default.htm
>

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Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
University of Melbourne
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