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I have an Apologist's Bible Commentary (cmtx) that won't work. Am I missing something that I should be doing to get it to work? Can someone help?

Dear Josh:

Thanks for your advice. I downloaded the Tab Renamer, last night, tried it on a couple bblx files, turned on E-Sword again, and suddenly the bblx files showed up. I also tried doing the same, using the library manager, but it worked inconsistantly. Sometimes, the library manager would change the tab name successfully. Other times, the program would ask me to shut down and restart in administrator mode. Two or three times it, changed the tab names, but would register an error message and then when e-sword restarted, two error messages, concerning the bblx files now come up on start-up, yet the files, under their new names, would appear in E-sword. The reason I tried to change tab names using library manager, was because you could change multiple file tab names, whereas you could only change one tab name at at time, using the Tab Renamer. So...while the library manager is a useful tool for organization, experimental trial and error taught me it is better to use the one-file-at-a-time Tab Renamer. Perhaps, someone will come up with a new version of the Tab Renamer that will allow multiple files to be renamed when one clicks "update." It is a useful tool. Sometimes, all you need to do is to add periods after each abbreviated letter of a Bible version, so that it would show up in e-sword without the tab being too long. Simple, but effective.

Thanks, Josh.

Yours and His:

Mike Clarke

P.S. being new to the library manager, I noticed, over the past couple weeks, that when anything is rearranged in order, a tab name or description is made, the library manager continually makes renamed copies of everythng and everthing that has been changed. While this has the advantage of saving the default names, order and descriptions of files that have been changed, it also has the disadvantage of considerably bulking up the megabyte space that E-Sword takes up on my hard drive. The more changes you make, the more copies are made and the more space that is taken up. When renamed, the new ffiles all show up as numbers, which can make it cumbersome to find which file is linked to which number. I keep having to refer back to the library manager to find which number matches  the name of a particular e-sword file. Sometimes, I can go into my e-sword file and type in *.bblx, or dctx, for examples, followed by a certain number, 01_, for example or *. rsv, for example, and that will find me the file or files I'm looking for. But not always. When I end up with several copies of one file and want to pare down everything to one copy, it can be a slow process to find all the instances, shown in the library manager, to delete, so that I end up with only one copy of each file. So....while the library manager is, indeed, a very useful management organizing tool, on one hand, it can also increase/complicate the management of several duplicate files, on the other hand. Perhaps, this drawback to an, otherwise, useful tool, can be addressed, in future version updates.

Sorry for the long P.S.

But thanks, again, for your help.

Yours and His:

Mike Clarke