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[Jogirl]

There is a .top file that I want to read in e-sword.  I downloaded it and installed it.  It doesn't show up in the reference browser.   There must be a way to do this--I just don't know how.  Please let me know how.  Thanks!

[BH.]

Start e-Sword, go to the Topic Notes Editor window, ctrl+right click on the main window pane and select "Open...".  In the lower left of the Open File dialog box where you see "Topic Notes Files (.topx)",  click the drop down button, and select, "Old Topic Notes Files (.top)".  Use the dialog box to navigate to the folder where you have place the TOP file, select it and click "Open".  done.

[jhmoser]

Hello:

 

I tried your instructions above but I am not getting the "Open" option, only a drop-down for editing options.  I am using e-sword 11.0.6 and want to view/read "top" files.

[journey]

Hello:

 

I tried your instructions above but I am not getting the "Open" option, only a drop-down for editing options.  I am using e-sword 11.0.6 and want to view/read "top" files.

 

It sounds like you're opening the topic editor instead of the Reference Library. Go to the second line in the main menu of e-Sword and click the last icon on the right - Reference Library.

[BH.]

Hello:

 

I tried your instructions above but I am not getting the "Open" option, only a drop-down for editing options.  I am using e-sword 11.0.6 and want to view/read "top" files.

 

Press Ctrl, the right click.  Ctrl+Right Click

[bbacle]

Doesn't work for me.

Using 11.0.5

[kjhallin]

Recently I discovered that I have some older .top files (Scofiled 1917, and Robert Anderson)

 

I carefully read the instructions below

 

I entered the editor, and CTRL-RIGHT CLICK to expose the Open option

Then I selected Old Style Top as the file type,

And I used the browser dialog to find the .top file (which was in program file/e-sword, not in the Documents/e-sword of the later version

 

It looked like it was going to open : 

the line read :

 

Scofiled, Cyrus I. - Scofield Reference Bible Notes (1917).TOPX(!)

but the contents remained blank.

 

I have tried to repeat this changing the file type to "topx", 

 

Nothing displays the CONTENT. I have been blessed in time past by notes correcting my misunderstandings, and I would appreciate a helping hand here.

 

 

[kjhallin]

One additional piece of information : The same procedure that fails for Scofield worked perfectly for my .top file from Anderson, Robert. 

[kjhallin]

Found the problem. apparently I need a password (which is long gone or lost).

Scofield notes were purchased in 2006 timeframe, and that's too long ago. 

[Tj Higgins]

Found the problem. apparently I need a password (which is long gone or lost).

Scofield notes were purchased in 2006 timeframe, and that's too long ago. 

The Scofield module is copyrighted and licensed for e-Sword thus it is encrypted you might be able to convert it using a program called Simple Bible Reader

Edited by Tj Higgins, 05 June 2022 - 03:05 PM.