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.CBH format is composed of a minimum of seven and as many as twenty separate files.
If you backup or save just the .CBH file and try to open it later, you'll get nothing the additional files are required.
But ChessBase and the various playing programs we offer give you the option of
bundling all of these files together into one unified archive file. This file ends in the
extension .CBV and is an archive that stores the multiple database files into a single
compressed file. This allows for easier copying to a storage medium (such as a CD or
DVD) since you'll only need to copy one file instead of seven to twenty of them.
In the playing programs, such as Fritz, you first go to the database window, where
you'll see the list of games for the current database. To archive it, go to Database
Window and select "Da t a ba se - Ba c kup Da t a ba se ".

The function jumps you right to the Windows file select dialogue.
Here again it's best to create the .CBV file in a different folder.
Once the multiple database files have been compressed into the single .CBV file, you
can copy that archive file onto a floppy, CD,DVD, ZIP disk, or tape backup or any
external storage medium. If your original database (which is still in its original location,
by the way -- nothing happens to it just because you made an archive copy) gets
corrupted or accidentally deleted, you now have a replacement copy.
Make frequent backups. This is very important and applies to more than just your
chess databases. Any important stuff that you've written or created should be backed
up. And, as a personal recommendation, having a rewritable CD drive is very handy for
this if your PC doesn't already have one. Also, you can forget about using CD-RW disks
-- they're essentially useless, as the data can't be used on a PC other than the one
on which the CD was formatted. CD-R disks are much better, since you can change
the disk's parameters to enable its use on other PCs (this is something else I learned
the hard way).

3.4.20 Database text
A database text is not a game but text reports, which may contain pictures, videos,
positions and links to games, keys, other texts, etc. It appears like a game in the
database list, an can be loaded in the same way. But it produces a new window for
the report.

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