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CBlight doesn’t have a command to copy a database to your hard drive within the software, so you’ll need to do this in Windows Explorer. Put the Big Bird Powerbase CD in your CD drive and start Windows Explorer. In Explorer’s left-hand pane, click on the plus sign next to My Computer:

Next click directly on BigBird (which will be followed by your CD drive’s letter in parentheses) as I’ve done in the illustration above. Look in the right-hand pane. You’ll see some folders and files listed. Hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and click once on each file that starts with "BigBird". When you’ve finished, the view should look like this:

You’ve just selected all of these files for copying. Go to the Edit menu and select "Copy". It’ll look like nothing happened, but you’ve just told your computer that you wish to copy all of these files.

Now go back to the left-hand pane and click on the plus sign next to the drive where you’ve installed CBLight (this should be the C: drive if you used the defaults when you installed the program). Scroll down to "Program Files" and click the plus sign next to it to show all the subfolders within your Program Files folder. Scroll down through these to the "ChessBase" folder and click the plus sign next to it. Then find the folder for ChessBase Light (which should be designated CBLight, but this may vary according to which CBLight version you own). Click once directly on the words "CBLight" to highlight them in blue.

Now go back to the Edit menu and select "Paste". You’ll see the files for the Big Bird Powerbase appear in the right-hand pane. These will all be highlighted in blue. You’ve just copied them to your hard drive. But there’s still one more step. Go to the File menu and select "Properties". In the dialogue that appears, uncheck the "Read only" box – this removes a file attribute from all of the files which would keep you from annotating games or adding more games to the database later.

These file copying skills work as well for the programs introduced below, but they have even simpler features available to help with this chore. When copying manually, however, we see that any "sub-folders" which are part of a database will go in the same hard-drive folder where you’re keeping the main database files. In this case, there’s a "BigBird.bmp" folder that stays with the database, and some have ".wav." or ".avi" sub-folders associated with the database. Just keep the files and folders in the same relationship on your hard-drive as they appear on the CD.

Now start CBLight and you should see an icon for the Big Bird Powerbase in the Database window. Double-click this icon to start using your database.

(Note: it’s important to realize that the free CBLight and free CBReader have limitations built in, such the number of games visible or available in a database. To get the most out of very large game collections like the Big Bird PowerBase you simply need ChessBase 8.0 or a program in the Fritz "family" discussed below. But for very many ChessCentral CDs and e-books the free readers are fine.)

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