Merge older NOAA Style Reports

[The Grand Poohbah]

I couldn't resist it any longer. Costco had a sale on the Mac Mini (M1, 2020) and my 2009 iMac was feeling slower than molasses in January. The Wiki on moving a WeatherCat installation was extremely helpful. Thank you for that. The migration went well and WeatherCat was back in business the first time I started it up on the Mini.

However, WeatherCat is no longer showing my older NOAA Style Reports. It has started a new report file but will not display the older monthly or annual NOAA folders and files that are in the ~/Documents/WeatherCatNOAAReports folder.

Also, while all of my preferences were preserved with the exception of the WeatherCloud key, none of my custom graphs and gauges come over in the migration. This is minor since I can redo them (it's time for some housecleaning anyway.)

I am running WeatherCat 3.12 (Build 34) on macOS Big Sur 11.13.1.

How can I get WeatherCat to display all 10 years of my NOAA Style Reports?

[elagache]

Dear Grand and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

I couldn't resist it any longer. Costco had a sale on the Mac Mini (M1, 2020) and my 2009 iMac was feeling slower than molasses in January. The Wiki on moving a WeatherCat installation was extremely helpful. Thank you for that. The migration went well and WeatherCat was back in business the first time I started it up on the Mini.

Congratulations on the new Mac Mini and I'm glad that migration went well!   

However, WeatherCat is no longer showing my older NOAA Style Reports. It has started a new report file but will not display the older monthly or annual NOAA folders and files that are in the ~/Documents/WeatherCatNOAAReports folder.

I am running WeatherCat 3.12 (Build 34) on macOS Big Sur 11.13.1.

How can I get WeatherCat to display all 10 years of my NOAA Style Reports?

I just checked my WeatherCat installation and everything is working fine.  However, I'm running on an Intel Mac Mini and am stuck on Mojave.  Can anyone running Big Sir and ideally an M1 Mac check to see if there is a problem on their installation?

Also, while all of my preferences were preserved with the exception of the WeatherCloud key, none of my custom graphs and gauges come over in the migration. This is minor since I can redo them (it's time for some housecleaning anyway.)

I don't understand that either.  The configuration files for the custom graphs and gauges are in:

~/Library/WeatherCatData

So they should have been copied over when you did the migration.  If you can still access what was originally copied, you might take a look with XCode .plist editor to see if those files got corrupted somehow.

Sorry, that's all the help I can offer.

Edouard

[The Grand Poohbah]

So they should have been copied over when you did the migration.  If you can still access what was originally copied, you might take a look with XCode .plist editor to see if those files got corrupted somehow.

I looked at com.trixology.weathercat.plist and did not find any reference to the WeatherCatNOAAReports path.

However, it was curious that some of the other paths in the plist were user-dependent:

Example of user-dependent:      /Users/grand/Documents/WeatherCatBackups
Not user-dependent (preferred): ~/Documents/WeatherCatExports/Data Export

To summarize, examination of the plist shed no light on the missing NOAA reports or gauges.

Did anyone else who migrated to Big Sur have similar issues?

[elagache]

Dear Grand and WeatherCat troubleshooters,

So they should have been copied over when you did the migration.  If you can still access what was originally copied, you might take a look with XCode .plist editor to see if those files got corrupted somehow.

I looked at com.trixology.weathercat.plist and did not find any reference to the WeatherCatNOAAReports path.

Sorry, my suggestion to look at the .plist files were only for your graph and gauges problem.  I was wondering if either:

~/Library/WeatherCatData/WeatherCatCustomGauges.plist

or

~/Library/WeatherCatData/WeatherCatCustomGraphs.plist

Could have gotten corrupted somehow.  WeatherCat manages these files exclusively (no macOS interference.)  Still, they could get corrupted anyway.

Is there anybody running Big Sur who can check on the NOAA report question? 

Cheers, Edouard