ORIGINAL: floydg
ORIGINAL: CaptDave
Hi, guys. I have a slight problem.
I accidentally skipped a turn and then loaded the next one, leaving a gap in the records. I know I can't load a turn I skipped, so I renamed the trackerdb files (so as not to lose them entirely) and tried to reinitialize the data base. When I try to do a multiple turn read, though, I keep getting a message that there are no unread files in the directory.
But you did see an "Initializing WitPTracker AE database" message when you started up the program after renaming the files, right? If not, then you didn't reinitialize the database. There are usually four trackerdb files - did you get all of them?
The normal file is wpae015.pws, so following the example on the web site I renamed my archive files (normally wpae050.pws through wpae059.pws, with the last digit corresponding to the turn number) wpae015-xx.pws, where xx is the actual turn number. Still no luck, and most of these files were created before reading the original 015 into Tracker.
Timestamp doesn't matter - the program reads every file that has a name matching the SaveFile pattern looking for turns that haven't been loaded.
It would appear I'm overlooking something, but what? I don't need to recover all the turns since the start of the game (in fact, I've been thinking of restarting the Tracker records, anyway, just because they're taking longer and longer to load), but would at least like to get the turn I missed and a few more for continuity.
If it makes a difference, the game is the latest official release (no beta) and Tracker is the latest version without any beta dlls.
See above.
Floyd
Okay, let me clarify. This is a PBEM game; I'm playing Allies. I receive my opponent's turn in the 015 file. I run the 001 to get the combat results, then open 015. I (usually) immediately file it as 05x, then look at the operations and intel reports. If I didn't remember to save the 05x file then, I do now. Then I close out of AE, go to Tracker, and load the latest turn. On rare occasions I forget to save to 05x before updating Tracker, but certainly not 10 turns in a row.
I do get the "initializing database" message, and I do check first to be sure all four files are gone.
I forgot to mention in my first post that I do get a warning message when initializing: "Could not find appropriate day in SigInt file <P:...\asigint.txt>." Also, just now I tried a test of loading just the current turn and got a message that it's already been loaded. I don't know where this is being tracked; doing a DIR with the /ta switch confirms only the new trackerdb files have been accessed in the last 7 hours.
Hope this helps!
(BTW: I apologize for not continuing with the timing tests. Between the updates you guys made at the time, and my new machine, everything happens too fast to record the process times.)
Dave
[/center]