It is also recommended to enable both 'Separate by Site' and 'Separate by Date', as they will organize your hand histories within the processed hands folder for easy retrieval. To change where the files are moved to click the. To prevent this slow-down you should have the Move Processed Files To option enabled and specify a folder which is completely separate to anywhere you are importing from.
This can take quite a while, especially as the number of old files builds up. If the hand history files are left in the original hand history folder then they will have to be re-read every time Auto Import is started. When this has been done, the hand history files are no longer needed (except as a backup in case you need to re-import them). When PokerTracker 4 has imported the hands from a hand history file the information is stored in a PT4 database.
