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I have been using Flashnote and Clipdiary for some months and was quite happy with them. I have now installed the 1 month trial version of Flashpaste to see whether it can combine the functions of the earlier two utlities.

During the months, I have collected several items in my Flashnote and Clipdiary databases. Now, when I use Flashpaste, I would like that history to appear in Flashpaste otherwise, I would have to manually copy all those things from earlier software to this one.

Can we import Flashnote and Clipdiary database to Flashpaste? How?

This is impossibly. They are very different software.

OK.

As all these softwares are given by a single site, I had expected that they were developed by the same person or same group of persons. So, it was natural to think that they might be using the same database technology and structure.

Frankly, all your three software use different database nomenclature, different folders, different structures, and that is quite confusing to users.

As Flashnote and clipdiary are simpler and free versions, a user of yours is bound to try them first and then, on getting encouraged, he might go to use flashpaste and buy it. In that case, it is a natural expectation of such users that whatever databases they had collected in flashnote/ clipdiary during their earlier stint of use, can be imported to flashpaste. If not, that itself would be a reason enough for people not to use flashpaste.

btw, I could open all flashnote/ clipdiary/ flashpaste databases using free SQLite Format 3 readers, and even export/ import the data to text/ html/ cvs formats. However, the clipboard management part of data among the other is just not visible correctly, may be because you might have used some technique or encryption for that.

Would you like to share more about the database structure, which software/ technology have you used in it, whether there is an encryption in it, how to decode it.

I feel your users will feel it a great help if they could export/ import data from your software and within your one software to another.

Yes, you are right, all this software was written by me.


Three this utility use SQLite as database, but different structures of database according to its goals.



Do you really think that different software should (may?) use identical folders. files or database structures???



You are first user that want such thing. I have 3000 record in clipdiary - do you think I want export them to Flashpaste?



Yes, it is encrypted. You can use function "sqlite3_decode_binary" from this wrapper http://www.codeproject.com/database/CppSQLite.asp to decode clipdiary data, if you want.