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Originally Posted by FreakDaddy
You must have missed the post literally right above yours.
If anyone is getting errors using the BOL catcher w/ PT4, there's a small bug in some of the latest versions of PT4. If you update to this latest alpha, it will resolve any import errors:
https://www.pokertracker.com/product...4.15.3.880.exe
Thanks for the reply, but that alpha version unfortunately does not seem to resolve the importing problem. I created a new db in PT4 (the alpha version) and tried to import the same hand history files, but the same hands turned out missing with the same error messages shown. I guess PT4 just does not expect special chars like colons in player names, but BOL is apparently quite permissive on that. Perhaps no one else has noticed the same problem since special chars in names are rare in the first place.
One simple workaround is to replace all occurrences of the player name in the hh files and re-import them, but if PT4 does not overwrite duplicate hands one has to purge the sessions, which can be troublesome (and there are notes). I wish there is a better solution, e.g. (a) requesting PT4 to support special chars in names, or (b) allowing BOL card catcher to auto replace specific chars (perhaps as a user option). Thoughts?