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Create Missing - corrupted log files

Posted: Thu 25 Aug 2022 2:16 pm
by Big Daddy
When I ran Create Missing it failed. After investigating I found 2 of my log files were very badly corrupted and contained mainly NUL values.

These are quite old files, one from 2017 and one from 2018 and unfortunately dont have backups going that far back so no chance of recovering. Dayfile.txt has good data for these periods so that is good.

If I rename the corrupted log files and run Create Missing, will it affect the data in my dayfile or will it just skip over it ignore it.

Thanks
Andy

Re: Create Missing - corrupted log files

Posted: Thu 25 Aug 2022 2:33 pm
by mcrossley
It will just flag those days as having no log data and not do anything with the corresponding dayfile entries.

Re: Create Missing - corrupted log files

Posted: Thu 25 Aug 2022 3:53 pm
by Big Daddy
Excellent. Thanks for the quick response Mark.

Andy

Re: Create Missing - corrupted log files

Posted: Thu 15 Dec 2022 7:08 pm
by orwell341
Hi there, I am having a small problem with Create Missing where it coughs when it reads an empty line at the end of each log file. Apart from manually editing each log file, is there anything else that I should try.
Thanks

Re: Create Missing - corrupted log files

Posted: Fri 16 Dec 2022 12:00 pm
by mcrossley
I'll add a ToDo item to ignore blank lines, but meantime you will have to manually delete them. Do you know how they got there?

Re: Create Missing - corrupted log files

Posted: Fri 16 Dec 2022 12:40 pm
by orwell341
Thank you
ERIC