diff --git a/Translate/Database/restoredb.sh b/Translate/Database/restoredb.sh
index 193e983..df6099d 100755
--- a/Translate/Database/restoredb.sh
+++ b/Translate/Database/restoredb.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+printf "importing...\n"
 sudo mysql -u root -pdbas --default-character-set=utf8mb4 < backupdb2.sql
+printf "optimizing...\n"
 sudo mysql -u root -pdbas --default-character-set=utf8mb4 < optimize.sql
+printf "stopping mariadb service\n"
 sudo service mariadb stop
+printf "truncating logs\n"
 sudo truncate /var/log/mariadb/adrastea.log -s 0
 sudo truncate /var/log/mariadb/adrastea-slow.log -s 0
+printf "restarting mariadb service\n"
 sudo service mariadb start
diff --git a/Translate/Translate/Services/MainService.cs b/Translate/Translate/Services/MainService.cs
index 4f253be..c3e09cf 100644
--- a/Translate/Translate/Services/MainService.cs
+++ b/Translate/Translate/Services/MainService.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 using Translate.Interface;
-
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
 using System.Text;
 
@@ -8,8 +7,8 @@ namespace Translate.Services
   /// <summary>
   /// This program performs translations from a MySql dump file to a file that can be imported by MariaDb.
   /// The main purpose is to translate 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci' embeddings in the MySql dump file to 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci'
-  /// which is what MariaDb can recognize.  It also skips the MySql database and only imports the 
-  /// market_data, portfolio_data, and user_data databases.
+  /// which is what MariaDb can recognize.   
+  /// The import includes MySql, market_data, portfolio_data, and user_data databases.
   /// It also has some logic for options I used for debugging like skipping the insert statements and limting the numnber of output lines
   /// </summary>
   public class MainService : IMainService
@@ -19,7 +18,7 @@ namespace Translate.Services
       bool includeInserts = true;
       bool useMaxLines = false;
       long maxLines = 2000;
-      int writerBufferSize=65536;
+      int writerBufferSize=65536;       // the write buffer size for the output stream
 
       String strTargetItem="utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci";    
       String strReplacementItem="utf8mb4_general_ci";   // "utf8mb4_unicode_ci"
@@ -32,7 +31,6 @@ namespace Translate.Services
 
       Console.WriteLine($"Replacing {strTargetItem} with {strReplacementItem}");
 
-
       Console.WriteLine("Input: {0}, Output:{1}, correct Y/N?",args[0],args[1]);
       String response = Console.ReadLine();
       if(!"YES".Equals(response,StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))return;
@@ -49,12 +47,13 @@ namespace Translate.Services
 
       if(File.Exists(pathOutput))
       {
+        Console.WriteLine($"Deleting {pathOutput}");
         File.Delete(pathOutput);
       }
 
+// if encounter these in the input then stop
       String[] unexpectedLines =
       {
-//        "-- Current Database: `mysql`",
         "-- Current Database: `performance_schema`",
         "-- Current Database: `information_schema`",
         "-- Current Database: `sys`",
@@ -94,9 +93,10 @@ namespace Translate.Services
 
         if(strLine.StartsWith("-- Current Database: `mysql`"))
         {
-          Console.WriteLine("skipping mysql");
-          writing=false;
-          continue;
+          //Console.WriteLine("skipping mysql");
+//          writing=false;
+//          continue;
+          writing=true;
         }
         else if(strLine.StartsWith("-- Current Database: `market_data`"))
         {
diff --git a/Translate/translate.sh b/Translate/translate.sh
index 5514968..da087a3 100755
--- a/Translate/translate.sh
+++ b/Translate/translate.sh
@@ -3,5 +3,3 @@ cd /home/pi/ARM64/Translate/Translate/bin/Debug/net8.0
 ./translate /mnt/mariadb/backupdb.sql /mnt/mariadb/backupdb2.sql
 cd /mnt/mariadb
 ./restoredb.sh
-
-