Can anybody help me to join my games with Scid?

Hello, I have recently downloaded Scid(the 4.5 version), and I'm very inexpert, so I don't know how-if it's possible-to "join" my games in just one archive. For example, when I download a game from here(chess.com), it automatically becomes a single pgn archive, so I have now like 60 and I would like join them only in one pgn archive.

Well, first I would recommend using Scid vs. PC instead of regular Scid. You can download it here for Windows. If you're on Linux and want help compiling it I can be of use there too. Scid vs. Mac downloads are available there for Mac users as well. The reason for this recommendation is that Scid is no longer in development (and hasn't been for a number of years). Scid vs. PC is a fork that is actively developed and maintained and has a number of improvements over Scid.

All that aside, what you want to do is create a new database in Scid (vs. PC). Click File>New, and name your database whatever you like. Then you can import your PGN files into the database. Note that after you import them it is reading from the Scid vs. PC database and not the original PGN files anymore, so you can delete the PGNs if you like. To import the PGNs from file, click Tools>Import PGN File. You can shift select all your PGN files to import them all.

Note that Scid and Scid vs. PC don't let you edit PGN files, only read them. If you want to annotate the games or add comments, you must import it into your database.

Creating your personal database is well worth it; you can export any (or all) game as PGN or HTML if you wish, and the databases are wicked fast for searching. Scid (vs. PC) has a lot of very nifty functionality built into the program for using the database.

If you need any more help you can probably either find an answer or get help on the Scid vs. PC mega thread here on chess.com.

Good luck!

First, thank you very much. Second, I've got a little problem. I downloaded Scid vs PC(4.11) at the page you told me and it works fine, except for one thing: When I open a game that has variations , when I arrive to the variation a window appears showing them(I enabled  Options/Moves/Show variation window and disabled the Show variation arrows option), I choose one of them(whit the up/down keys),press the right key, the first move of the variation starts but then, whatever I press anything happens, I press "z" to get out of the variation, or the right key to follow the variation, but nothing works, so I have to use the mouse to get out of the variation. With Scid it did worked, so I cannot explain why it doesn't with Scid vs PC. I would be very grateful if you or anyone else can help me.

P.D.: I could compile my games.

what is up dude 

If you know anything about Python or the Linux/Mac command line (I think Windows too), combining pgn files into one file would just be joining them using the "new line" connector. 

I wrote a couple of Python scripts for creating big pgn files from my game archive and from tournaments.

Hmmm - Yes, in MS windows, this is failing. But i have a hack to fix it. In scid.gui find and replace these lines

  ### Disabled. See another focus -force above
  # need to use "-force" to keep keyboared bindings after wheelmouse
  # focus -force .main

with

after idle {focus -force .main}

It worked! Thank you very much.

Sorry for the late response...

If you just want to join pgn files and don't want to get involved with Scid file formats, I guess you could use the DOS copy command in a command-prompt window, although I don't know how you'd put a carriage return between the merged files.

However, here's a super-slick little utility that does the job perfectly:

"TXTcollector - Free Text File Merging Tool"

http://bluefive.pair.com/txtcollector.htm

Just check the boxes for "No Separator" and "No Filename". I don't know how many files it can join before it chokes; You'll have to experiment.

I tried it - It just works, no fuss, no bother.