Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.1.2 Status File Error
Bill, Agree, but not the point. Storage in a temporary file or folder is just that, temporary. That said, obviously something is doing what you said, but my Malwarebytes and anti-virus and CCleaner are all set to leave that temporary subdirectory and file alone. I can manually fix the problem by recreating the WSJT-X sub-folder and then restarting WSJT-X or changing something in WSJT-X. One of the errors occurred on WSJT-X startup. I can live with it, because the errors happen intermittently and not frequently. This started as just a question. Why, when WSJT-X finds the error, can't it re-establish the folder and file. If the developers view this as an extremely low priority, that's fine. You are busy and frankly if I were one of you, it wouldn't be high on my radar either. So it's just a question. __ Dan - K4SHQ CFI/II -Original Message- From: Bill Somerville [mailto:g4...@classdesign.com] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 6:55 PM To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.1.2 Status File Error On 17/12/2019 00:41, Dan Malcolm wrote: > Thanks Jim. > > Yes I do have Malwarebytes and an anti-virus running but both have the temp > WSJT-X folder and file exempted. It probably is something that's running but > if WSJT-X can't find that directory inside a temp directory, it should just > re-create it. Temp folders and files are by their nature volatile and > temporary. > > __ > Dan - K4SHQ > CFI/II Dan, this sort of error can happen on Windows when one application holds a file or directory open while another deletes a parent directory. Windows appears to complete the deletion of the directory but the directory is invisibly preserved until the first application closes the file or directory it has open. There is no problem with this until a new application instance tries to recreate the deleted directory which then fails. WSJT-X deletes it's temporary directory and contents upon exit and creates it on entry. I guess some other application is holding that directory or a directory or file under it open and interfering with WSJT-X's best efforts to use it's own temporary files. Temporary files are not volatile by nature, they are simply files that are created and used by an application until it has finished with them. They should not be opened by other applications which have no business meddling with internal WSJT-X data. 73 Bill G4WJS. ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.1.2 Status File Error
On 17/12/2019 00:41, Dan Malcolm wrote: Thanks Jim. Yes I do have Malwarebytes and an anti-virus running but both have the temp WSJT-X folder and file exempted. It probably is something that's running but if WSJT-X can't find that directory inside a temp directory, it should just re-create it. Temp folders and files are by their nature volatile and temporary. __ Dan - K4SHQ CFI/II Dan, this sort of error can happen on Windows when one application holds a file or directory open while another deletes a parent directory. Windows appears to complete the deletion of the directory but the directory is invisibly preserved until the first application closes the file or directory it has open. There is no problem with this until a new application instance tries to recreate the deleted directory which then fails. WSJT-X deletes it's temporary directory and contents upon exit and creates it on entry. I guess some other application is holding that directory or a directory or file under it open and interfering with WSJT-X's best efforts to use it's own temporary files. Temporary files are not volatile by nature, they are simply files that are created and used by an application until it has finished with them. They should not be opened by other applications which have no business meddling with internal WSJT-X data. 73 Bill G4WJS. ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.1.2 Status File Error
Thanks Jim. Yes I do have Malwarebytes and an anti-virus running but both have the temp WSJT-X folder and file exempted. It probably is something that's running but if WSJT-X can't find that directory inside a temp directory, it should just re-create it. Temp folders and files are by their nature volatile and temporary. __ Dan - K4SHQ CFI/II -Original Message- From: Jim Preston [mailto:jprest...@cox.net] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 3:11 PM To: wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.1.2 Status File Error Dan, AFAIK, the wsjtx_status.txt file is created every time wsjt-x is started, and is deleted every time wsjt-x is closed. If it is disappearing while wsjt-x is running, it might well be some other program is deleting it. The same is true for the entire subfolder. Stop any other running programs that might do this, and see if that makes a difference. Do you have Malwarebytes running at the same time as your AV? Is CCleaner running all the time? Do you have some program set to automatically delete tmp files or directories? Thse would all be places to check. If it is a case of some program automatically deleting tmp files and folders, this can probably be turned off, or adjusted so that it doesn't happen as often. 73, Jim N6VH On 12/14/2019 5:15 PM, Dan Malcolm wrote: > I keep getting an error reporting that WSJT-X can't find its status > file. The reported path is > "C:/Users//AppData/Local/Temp/WSJT-X/wsjtx_status.txt". I > can see why it can't find it and that's because the ".Temp/WSJT-X" > subfolder is missing. Obviously something on my Win10 system is > removing it. I don't know what application is doing it, but it's > probably CCleaner or my anti-virus or Malwarebytes. I can probably > figure that out. My question though is; shouldn't WSJT-X be a little more > fault tolerant? > Anything in a temp directory is subject to disappearing. If the > sub-folder can't be found, recreate it. > > I know from past experience with this fault, that manually creating > the WSJT-X sub-folder in "Temp" will fix the problem. I can recreate > the problem by changing bands in WSJT-X, after a successful launch, in > which I don't have the problem. The problem appears intermittently, > but keeps happening until I do a manual fix. > > __ > > Dan - K4SHQ > > CFI/II > > > > ___ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
Re: [wsjt-devel] False Frequency reports
I found this discussion from 2017 in the archives. As far as I know, this problem has not been fixed. With CAT enabled here, if I change bands just at the wrong time, the reported frequencies of decoded FT4 or FT8 spots are all on the new band. Could this not be fixed by remembering the frequency of the radio before the decoding began and using it in the reported signal reports? Lee VE7CC ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.1.2 Status File Error
Dan, AFAIK, the wsjtx_status.txt file is created every time wsjt-x is started, and is deleted every time wsjt-x is closed. If it is disappearing while wsjt-x is running, it might well be some other program is deleting it. The same is true for the entire subfolder. Stop any other running programs that might do this, and see if that makes a difference. Do you have Malwarebytes running at the same time as your AV? Is CCleaner running all the time? Do you have some program set to automatically delete tmp files or directories? Thse would all be places to check. If it is a case of some program automatically deleting tmp files and folders, this can probably be turned off, or adjusted so that it doesn't happen as often. 73, Jim N6VH On 12/14/2019 5:15 PM, Dan Malcolm wrote: I keep getting an error reporting that WSJT-X can’t find its status file. The reported path is “C:/Users//AppData/Local/Temp/WSJT-X/wsjtx_status.txt”. I can see why it can’t find it and that’s because the “…Temp/WSJT-X” subfolder is missing. Obviously something on my Win10 system is removing it. I don’t know what application is doing it, but it’s probably CCleaner or my anti-virus or Malwarebytes. I can probably figure that out. My question though is; shouldn’t WSJT-X be a little more fault tolerant? Anything in a temp directory is subject to disappearing. If the sub-folder can’t be found, recreate it. I know from past experience with this fault, that manually creating the WSJT-X sub-folder in “Temp” will fix the problem. I can recreate the problem by changing bands in WSJT-X, after a successful launch, in which I don’t have the problem. The problem appears intermittently, but keeps happening until I do a manual fix. __ Dan – K4SHQ CFI/II ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel ___ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
