Stephen Zeoli wrote:

Oops. Don't know what happened with that previous reply with no actual
reply in it.

But regarding export by TheBrain, it should be clarified that the
application does not use a proprietary database or anything that locks
your information away. The reason, I believe, that it exports a folder
for each "thought" is because a thought can hold all kinds of other
files as attachments: Word documents, PDFs, images, etc... So when it
exports, it needs a landing place for all those attachments, and it
would be utter chaos if they didn't go into those discrete folders.

Yes, that's a good point Stephen. Mind you, I still question why the thought html within the exported thought folder doesn't share the thought's title. That would make life easier.

I can see, however, the dilemma you have, Graham, trying to transfer so
much information.

If you do not have attachments, but only notes within each thought, you
might try experimenting with using the selection function and copying
"text outline with notes," and see if there is some way to make that
work. You wouldn't do it with the whole brain, but in smaller chunks.
Probably not really any better, but worth a little experimentation,
maybe.

Thanks. I don't have attachments, but I do have a lot of html formatting which gets lost in those "copy as ..." options. It gets data out, but it would mean more cut and paste than when exporting as html. I can export as Simple html from The Brain and import those files into CT, but then each topic name would need changing and every internal link re-creating, and I was rather hoping there was a quicker way. After all, I've only another 15 years to go before retirement ...

Graham