Could someone please help me? ive been having problems datamining. whenever i have tables on FTP open, but am not sitting at them, and i try to import hands, i receive this message:

"No hand history files have been created/updated since the last import."

any suggestions?

Are they being saved to your hard drive?

Do you have the "Do not import observed hands" box unchecked?

so far everything is set up correctly i believe:
Both boxes are unchecked, theyre supposed to be being sent to the right database, etc. i think im gunna check out PT support.

Two other things to confirm:
You have to be logged in to Full Tilt for observed hands to be saved,
and from the Full Tilt's lobby click Options...Hand History... and make sure the "Save My Hand Histories" is checked and a valid folder path is specified.
When you are observing hands being played you should see .tmp files being created and stored in that specified folder path.

Thanks Les... Looks like a nice utility!

so far, thats been checked. where do i see these .tmp files?

Is there a way to make work for sit and go's? If not, is there something comparable that does?

This might sound stupid, but one of my friends on AIM had the same problem the other day, and the problem turned out to be that he was using the generic Auto-Import Hand Histories/Tournament Summaries option in PT rather than the Auto-Import Full Tilt Hand Histories option. Are you using the right one?

nanochip,

I just had version 0.30 running for a few hours and four of the tables were totally empty. I clicked the "close tables" button and two tables (both of which had 4 players sitting) both got closed; the empty tables stayed open. I checked the last hand for two of the tables and both of them have been empty for over two hours.

I glanced through the CloseTables() code to see what would happen if the function was testing a table that is no longer in the lobby.

What ends up happening is that vTablePosInString is set to 0. First, the check for "does the user want us to close tables not in the lobby?" is run, which requires this variable being 0; however, I don't have that box checked. The test for "are we closing tables with too few players?" requires this variable to be positive; therefore, tables that are no longer in the lobby are not tested for having too few players, even if they're empty (of course, since they aren't in the lobby, I guess FTTO has no way of knowing that they're empty).

Perhaps a check could be added to look at the table's title bar? For example, if "Scholar (6 max) - $1/$2 - No Limit Hold'Em" is an open table, but the user is viewing the HE lobby and that table isn't in it, FTTO can assume it's empty and close it? Of course, with the new high/medium/low filters that wouldn't work 100%...seems like a tricky problem At least we know why it's happening now though.

When I checked the "close tables not in lobby" option and hit the close tables button, the empty tables got closed and everything was cool.

I intended the "close tables not in lobby" checkbox to handle the case where Full Tilt removes empty tables from the lobby.

If you don't want to run with that option checked, you could shorten the timer value, so that the table could be closed before FT removes it from the lobby. With the faster code now, it may be reasonable to set the timer to 2-3 minutes.

Ohh, I thought it was like "if you click the Omaha lobby then all your HE tables get closed" or something. If all it does is shut down empty tables that's fine.

Yes, if you click the Omaha lobby, it will close all of your HE tables (full or empty) (with the "close tables not in lobby" checked). A better caption for that option would be: "close tables not in current lobby and close empty tables that are no longer in current lobby".

I leave this option checked, except when I am mining in one lobby and playing out of another. In that case I re-check the option when I am done playing.

Yes, that would work... and like you say would be confusing with the 3 different levels.

Do you play and mine from different lobbies at the same time?

Not usually, but it's conceivable that I might be mining and then close a couple tables to donk around at HA or whatever. It's not a huge deal, I don't do that very often, and can live w/ shutting down my datamining operations (or risking empty tables) while I do.

It might be that you haven't told PokerTracker what database they should be going into. Click on the auto-import icon for FullTilt. When the window pops up, you will see two tabs - the first one with the timer countdown, etc, on it and another one behind it called (?) (at work now, so can't look). Click on that tab and there's a line to enter the database where you want the files to go. Click on the ... icon next to the line and select the database where you want the observed hands to go.

I am having the same problem. I can't get PT to import any observed hands from the tables that are open. (do the tables have to be maximized?) anyway i even created a new database for the observed hands..? still doesn't work? what am i doing wrong? hand histories saved. imports fine when i sit but observed hands aren't working.

Cheer, since you're importing hands when you sit, check your PT selected directory to make sure observed hands also appear in the same directory. When you play, FT saves your hands in a folder with your username as a subdirectory. Perhaps the problems people are running into is they are telling PT to import hands in this subdirectory but the observed hands are being saved elsewhere (i.e. the main hand history directory that is back one folder.)

Nanochip,
I just started playing with this yesterday and it seems to work great except that after a while it does not close empty tables, even if I have the box checked to close the tables once the player count gets below a certain number. It seemed like the function worked initially but stopped after a while. Any ideas?

And now my n00b question: There's no way of preventing FT from deleting the .tmp files once a table is closed or am I missing an option somewhere?

Read up in the thread, I had the same problem. You have to use the "close tables not in current FT lobby" option; once a table empties, FTTO can't see that it has 0/6 players or whatever because there isn't a lobby entry for it.

Ah, ok. I missed that and didn't understand what the option meant. Thanks for explaining.

Do you know what the option "Close tables listed in FT lobby but not in any group" means?

Version 0.31 - 12-17-06
1. Changed description on a checkbox option to "Close empty tables and tables not in current FT Lobby".
No functionality changes were made to the code.

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Documentation is here .

If this option is checked, then the software will close any tables that you have open that are configured in one of the groups A-H (as long as the # Tables is not set to 0).

If checked this will close all tables that are not one of the groups... just in case you left one open while playing. Of course if you want to play at a table that isn't one of the groups, then you will want to leave this option unchecked.

I don't know of any setting to allow these files to be kept.

If there was a lot of interest in this, I could add some code to FTTO to copy these files to another folder while FTTO was running.

It'd be a nice idea if it's not too much trouble. That way we don't have to worry about importing hands constantly or missing hands once a table got closed during the Automatic Open and Close cycle. If you were really feeling up to it, perhaps you could allow us to specify a directory for each column? That way we could separate by stakes, FR/6max, game type, etc... if we wanted to.

It seems like these .tmp files are standard .txt files. If you changed the extension to .txt during the copy process they could be imported using PT's generic import as well as the FT specific import.

Quick, dumb question: let's say I mine on two PC's. I first import all hands from PC1, then import hands from PC2. If a hand was mined on both PC's, will it be ignored on the second import by PT? (Or imported twice?)

I think it'll be ignored, but just checking.

edit: just realized I made a huge bump. But this program still works doesn't it?

I very much love this script. Good stuff.

Of course, I do have one request. I would like to be able to leave FTTO running while I play. To do that, I need to be sure that the close tables functionality won't close a table that I'm currently sitting at, even if that table meets the criteria for closing it.

Secondly, there appears to be an issue of some sort in the exit routine. It's not uncommon for the script to not want to close properly when I try to exit. The GUI will go away, but the instance of AHK will stay active. When I try to launch a new copy of FTTO, I get the dialog about multiple instances of the script. To get the script running again, I need to manually kill (right click, close) the AHK instance from the toolbar icon on the bottom right.

I'm glad you find the script useful!

Good suggestion... I'll look into adding this.


If you do File...Exit OR right click on the icon in the task bar and then click exit, it will exit completely. I'll make a change in the next version that will terminate completely when the red X is clicked.

New Version

Version 0.32 - 1-2-07
1. Clicking the Red X in upper right hand corner will completely close the script.
2. Script will now not close any tables that you are seated at.
3. Added option to "not close any tables that are visible (not minimized)"
4. Focus is now returned to the last active windows application after opening tables.

Download here .
Documentation is here .