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WeatherCat => WeatherCat General Discussion => Topic started by: Mtn.Marty on March 05, 2014, 02:39:35 PM
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Was playing around with the gps coordinates of my station and experienced a freeze of WC. Quit, restarted and now WC does not see any of my historical data. What to do?
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Hello Mtn. Marty,
Sounds like something is corrupt. First try a reboot of the machine, if it's still the same restore your data to a previous backup using one of the methods below:
Data Restore:
You can restore the data from a backup copy via the Backup window (Tools menu->Backups). A list of backups is presented, sorted by date - the newest at the top of the list preselected. Hit the restore button to restore the data (please be sure before restoring the data that you have enough data in your data logger to fill in the hole that will be present after the restore is complete). During a restore, WeatherCat is halted and the only available option when the restore completes successfully is to quit WeatherCat. If the restore fails, your original data will be untouched and WeatherCat will continue running.
Restore Mode
WeatherCat also supports a special restore mode - hold the 'ctrl' key down when booting WeatherCat to restore data without fully booting WeatherCat. This is useful if your current data-set is corrupt.
In 'restore mode', WeatherCat will boot to the Backup window from where a backup can be chosen to restore from. No Weather processes will be running in this mode.
Alternatively, you can use TimeMachine to restore your WeatherCatData folder (which can be found in your ~/Library folder, where ~ is your home directory.
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Thanks so much. Rebooting didn't work, so I restored from the latest backup and the gap was filled in from the logger, so all is well again.
Marty