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[Chris Savage]

HA! LOL! That was good.

I wish I was joking. I am too literal sometimes. I guess I misread / misunderstood that message. 

Some of these could probably be posted into the "Humor" board. Of course, they lose something without the background.

I see the humor in it, only now. 

[granz]

HA! LOL! That was good.

I wish I was joking. I am too literal sometimes. I guess I misread / misunderstood that message. 

Some of these could probably be posted into the "Humor" board. Of course, they lose something without the background.

I see the humor in it, only now. 

I told Marilyn about it, and she laughed out loud - she thought that you were joking too.

[Chris Savage]

I told Marilyn about it, and she laughed out loud - she thought that you were joking too.

You can tell her that's why I posted the programmer joke in the Tech Humor forum about milk and eggs. For some of us, it's a real struggle.

[granz]

You can tell her that's why I posted the programmer joke in the Tech Humor forum about milk and eggs. For some of us, it's a real struggle.

Yep, I told her about that, and she agreed with my assessment about her not falling for that after so long with me. 

[granz]

Looks like I will need to split this off into another project thread.

[granz]

Houston, we have a problem.

I checked the SD card, and the file is on there, but there are only three entries from the PicoMite computer. The screen did show only those three entries, but I had been experiencing troubles, and thought that it was just not scrolling the screen. So, I'm not sure what happened here. Next up is to load up the newest PicoMite firmware, and carry on.

Today I take the car in to have them check out the electrical trouble that started when I left for the meetup. Of course, something has to go with me to keep me busy - in addition to my main computer (still working on recovering that) I will be taking my smart watch. When I came back to this thread, I saw that I never close the data file (how did I make that rookie mistake? ) I'm guessing that that caused some kind of overflow that stopped the writing to the file. That will be fixed, today.

[Chris Savage]

I saw that I never close the data file (how did I make that rookie mistake? ) I'm guessing that that caused some kind of overflow that stopped the writing to the file. That will be fixed, today.

Is that what caused it to only write three entries?

[granz]

I saw that I never close the data file (how did I make that rookie mistake? ) I'm guessing that that caused some kind of overflow that stopped the writing to the file. That will be fixed, today.

Is that what caused it to only write three entries?

That is what I am guessing, but I haven't had a chance to test that (and I may not actually test it - just continue on.) While I was at the car shop, I spent all the time trying to get my computer back up (still got quite a bit to go,) and did not get my "watch" (CrowPanel) out to play with work on it.

[Chris Savage]

Sometimes I bookmark unresolved things like this, and sometimes come back to find that they stalled out completely. LOL

[granz]

Yeah, I guess that I just have too many other projects.

I'll get back to testing this soon. Thanks for the reminder.

[Chris Savage]

Yeah, I guess that I just have too many other projects. I'll get back to testing this soon. Thanks for the reminder.

I think the reason I bookmarked it was because I had a theory as to why you only had three entries in the file, but was waiting for more information.

[granz]

I think the reason I bookmarked it was because I had a theory as to why you only had three entries in the file, but was waiting for more information.

So, do you remember your theory, and what "more information" were you hoping to get? That would help me to form my experiments to try to get that more information.

[Chris Savage]

So, do you remember your theory, and what "more information" were you hoping to get? That would help me to form my experiments to try to get that more information.

The old memory isn't what it used to be. I'd have to re-read the thread and see if jogs my memory.

[granz]

The old memory isn't what it used to be. I'd have to re-read the thread and see if jogs my memory.

Understood - let me know if you remember.

[Chris Savage]

Understood - let me know if you remember.

If I recall, I think my thoughts at the time were that if the battery ran out, the file may not have closed properly, leaving an impartial file. I think I was thinking the safer way to do it would be to open the file for append, write to it, close it, then do the same on the next capture. You'd be less likely to lose data, especially if it were writing once per minutes, as opposed to constantly.