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km
1st August 2006, 07:23.44 PM
Every year during DMR and SAR meets, i get calls for this issue =

"i download the files for HTR - but some tracks don't show up in the program"

99% of the time, the problem is that they have mixed last year's files with this year.

Most people don't delete the DMR and SAR meetings after they conclude, they like to keep them for next year. They should be stored in a separate folder DMR2005, SAR05, for instance, and then deleted from the local folder (c:\htr) to allow this year's meet to come in clean.

The initial processing of the racefiles does not distinquish the year in file name and gets confused if 2005 and 2006 races are mixed.

The simple solution is to delete or move last year's files for the same date before downloading.

MVM
1st August 2006, 08:57.50 PM
I do something a little weird with this.

I keep 2 years of data in a single folder for Emerald, but take the last letter of the file extension and change it to a digit. I only do this so I can easily look at a race PP from last season on occasion.

So I have a file named 0731B10.EMD for my 31July06 Race 10 Emerald files, along with a file named 0731B10.EM1 for 31July05. Seems to work, but could be a problem with say Fairplex and Fonner park for instance.