I've been looking into here but don't see the problem - is anyone else seeing this issue?
Cheers,
Stu.
I've been looking into here but don't see the problem - is anyone else seeing this issue?
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Hope this helps - not much else to report:
When I click on the Tools > Banner Generator I display the Banner Generator pop-up with correct current weather data. (see attachment)
The Banner Generator never actually generates the file. The log shows the following and repeats every 5 minutes as that is the timeframe I am using for updates:
2020/11/28 10:18:45:290 Aux. FTP: FTP upload starting.
2020/11/28 10:18:45:332 Aux. FTP: FTP advice - file wasn't ready to upload - will try again shortly. Path was: /Users/mydisk/Applications/WeatherCatJPG/WeatherCatBanner.jpg
2020/11/28 10:18:55:297 Aux. FTP: Finished. Uploaded 0 bytes in 11 seconds at 0 bytes per second.
Note that in my second attachment, all other .jpg files successfully create and upload, but not the weathercatbanner.jpg.
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The path that you have for your custom web files is unusual.True, the default location (The Manual, p. 133 and secondarily 218) for Custom stuff is: ~/Library/Application Support/WeatherCatCustomWeb/ but it is user definable so almost any location should work. :)
I can confirm my custom stuff is in ~/Library/Application Support/WeatherCatCustomWeb/OK, I see that both your sites use some of the 'standard' graphics. You don't appear to use any of the custom images. My hope was that we/Stu could see that his custom image creation functions were working or not. We can't really tell that since you aren't using any of the forms/frameworks that define those graphic's features. The only WC graphics creation form you are using is the Banner Generator. Only the dev knows if that image creation function is the same as the one for the Custom Gauge's/Graph's.
2020/11/27 15:06:41:077 FTP: Uploading customgauge15.png. (2 files left to upload.)
2020/11/27 15:06:41:154 FTP: Uploading custom-gauges-graphs.txt. (1 files left to upload.)
2020/11/27 15:06:41:232 FTP: Uploading station.html.
2020/11/27 15:06:41:310 CustomWeb: Finished parsing.
2020/11/27 15:06:41:388 CustomWeb: Finished processing custom web pages.
2020/11/27 15:06:42:125 Aux. FTP: FTP upload starting.
2020/11/27 15:06:42:204 Aux. FTP: Uploading Computer-Up-Time.txt.
it was there but has never been re-created.I assumed you would have a zero sized WeatherCatBanner file in the ~/Library/Application Support/WeatherCatCustomWeb/ directory and the one that was had been created still in the /Users/mydisk/Applications/WeatherCatJPG/ spot.
"mydisk" is an acronym for my drive name.
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Instructions to restore the two .plist files followed exactly and no joy! Log excerpts follow...
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It does not.
Neither of the above two fixes worked for me either
Already posted the error log earlier in the thread.
Same error as before. . . .
Dear ColdnFrosty, wx-watch, and WeatherCat troubleshooters,Already posted the error log earlier in the thread.Same error as before. . . .
Unfortunately, what this shows is that you didn't follow my second suggestion. What I was asking you is to move all your custom template processing folders inside your home folder. In my case this is (again in UNIX notion:)
/Users/elagache
Here is my reasoning for the experiment. I checked the contents of the general WeatherCat preference file and the unique one for the Banner generator. All the paths are only in the general preference file. What that means is that if there was some problem reading the preference file, all custom web processing should fail, not just the banner generator. Unfortunately, Apple has a daemon that caches the contents of the preference file. When WeatherCat requests a preference, Apple provides the data instead of WeatherCat going directly to the preference file.
The log files you are providing me show that the path to save the WeatherCatBanner.jpg file is an impossible path. The daemon is mixing a user directory with the path to your hard drive. Not surprisingly, that fails. Your hard drive cannot be accessed off us the /User branch of the UNIX file system.
That is why I am suggesting that you move all your custom web folders to your home folder. Given that the Daemon is prepending /User erroneously to path, it - might - work because the path would be off of /User. Another possibility is that it will still insist on putting that on the front of the path which would generate an erroneous path that would look start this: /User/User.
Either way, that would provide Stu with a much clearer idea of what is going wrong. It might be enough for him to be able to make a precise bug report for Apple and it certainly should help him find a way to work around this bug in the Apple daemon.
Cheers, Edouard
I'm getting confused by the exact path you are wanting to save the Banner (should it ever be created!). I see the following in your various posts:The actual default and recommended (please see p. 133 & 218 in The Manual) name/path is:~[user]/Library/Application Support/WeatherCatCustomWeb/
- /Users/[myusername]/Applications/WeatherCatJPG/
- /Users/MYNAME/WCWebCustom/
I think there is at least one other person reporting this missing Banner problem, but it might make things simpler and easier for Stu if we kept the variables to a minimum. Since you are not getting the file loaded anywhere, would it be asking too much to create the correctly named directory at the default location? [computer] jis' fer grins? [cheers1] If you could do that, I promise not to tell you to completely duplicate my entire folder hierarchy on your volumes! :-XEven though I'm sure my way is best...
:-* cmu:-)