Editing an Erroneous record

[pete]

Hi guys,
Im about to join the fold and purchase WeatherCat..2 days left on my trial but one thing i cant get to work.. is how does one edit a false record.
the other day i had a wind record gust of 144.6km/h on my lacrosse ws 2355. (it wouldn't have been over 40 at best)

Ive tried opening the "data viewer/editor" in tools and changing the field to a different figure but it dosent save the change at all. (after about 30 seconds it just changes back too the original false record)

Is there a trick to it?
and, if so, once a reading is changed does it auto correct other things like record for the month and year etc.?

Will appreciate some help, Ive tried searching first but couldn't find an answer ;-)

[HairyMcLeary]

Welcome aboard. I also have a WS-2355 and have experienced the famous LaCrosse phantom gales, though not for quit some time.


First thing to do is quit Weather Cat
Go to your Library folder on under your User name on your HDD
Open WeatherCatData folder
There you will see 2 files for each month, each month has it's month number as a prefix (i.e. 7 for July)
Delete the file for the month you want to edit ending in ".hrs" (this will be re-written when you re-start WeatherCat)
Open the other for the month you want to edit in a text editor. I use Komodo for this, (free to download)
Find the data you want to edit and re-save the file
Re-start Weathercat

I hope this helps. Just remember to delete the "hours" file for the month you are editing, otherwise the incorrect data will be -re-written when you re-start WC.

Tony

[Tornado Tim]

You can also use the data viewer/editor...... It wont allow you to change the rain, that when I alter the raw logs.......

[WCDev]

I swear there's a cache bug somewhere that causes edits to not stick in the editor sometimes. If the edit isn't sticking, restart WeatherCat after using the editor.

[pete]

Appreciate it.  thanks guys.

[HairyMcLeary]

I've never managed to get changes to stick with the built in editor in LWC. I haven't needed to try it with WC.
I will try Stu's tip next time I need to try it.

Tony