Will Importing Preserve My Existing History Files?

Discussion related to "Everything" 1.5.
raldisk
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Will Importing Preserve My Existing History Files?

Post by raldisk »

dumb question does importing work the same as appending? I already have pre-existing history files. If I import, will it not overwrite my current/existing files?
void
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Re: Will Importing Preserve My Existing History Files?

Post by void »

History -> Organize History -> Import and Tools -> Run History -> Import will append to your existing history.
Pre-existing history is overwritten.
therube
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Re: Will Importing Preserve My Existing History Files?

Post by therube »

I'll note that the imported .csv must have the expected "header"-line in order for anything to actually import.

So something like:
Search,Search Count,Last Search Date



Above was really confusing for me, so...

New items are appended
Existing unchanged items are left as is
Existing changed items are updated
Herkules97
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Re: Will Importing Preserve My Existing History Files?

Post by Herkules97 »

Seems easier to just copy the files over and rename if needed? It's what I've been doing, I've not touched the import/export stuff.
Nvm, brainfart