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 Now that the entry of my baseball card collection is complete, I have been doing my part in submitting missing checcklists.  But when there is a requirement for a "Note 2", i am finding that it is not being imported from my file into the database.  I have been going into the database checklist and entering all of the Note 2 manually but I am wondering if I am doing something wrong when importing the file or if the database does not recognize the fifth column of the file. Anyone know?

Beckett and the Standard Catalog have a tendancy to number everything, regardless of whether the cards were numbered.  Most of the time, it's just a matter of them alphabetizing an unnumbered set, and then numbering it accordingly.   As a result, a lot of people (myself included) just get in the habit of duplicating the numbering they find somewhere else.  I'm trying to work myself out of that habit and have also requested the ability to edit card numbers after the fact to help clean some of that up.   I agree that we should try to be as faithful to the actual card as possible when documenting checklists.

 Thanks Clyde.  No problem.  I will continue to add checcklists and then manually add the Note 2 field.  You've been here for 7 years - can you tellme why someof the checklists have numbers when the card themselves don"t?  I entered the silks checklists - they do not have numbers so I entered NNO and in alphabetical order as per my guides.  I think this is better information for the users of this site.  When I entered my collection, a card with no number was part of the confirmation to the database - looking for a card in the list without the number.

Beckett and the Standard Catalog have a tendancy to number everything, regardless of whether the cards were numbered.  Most of the time, it's just a matter of them alphabetizing an unnumbered set, and then numbering it accordingly.   As a result, a lot of people (myself included) just get in the habit of duplicating the numbering they find somewhere else.  I'm trying to work myself out of that habit and have also requested the ability to edit card numbers after the fact to help clean some of that up.   I agree that we should try to be as faithful to the actual card as possible when documenting checklists.