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[EarthlingUk]

Hi Guys and Girls,

 

I just took some shots of Jupiter last night and happily transferred the ser files to my T7 shield external drive and loaded up on my windows machine where I have the processing software and use it all the time.

This time, however, I did the usual and ran the files through Pipp - all good. An Avi file was generated as usual on the external drive BUT, when it came to processing in either Astrosurface or Autostakkert, a folder would be generated but no file would be there.

Astrosurface gave the following message: ERROR_C :  in SaveMatToFile  writing  E:/Jupiter 111124/pipp_20241111_145758/Aligned/jupiter__000001__00-42-44__data_pipp_____100r_48T_3086reg.tif

Autostakkert gave no message while generating its output folder (with nothing in it).

I haven't changed a thing on the PC.

 

Any ideas? It just seems to be I'm having one issue after another these days with software or my new SV705c camera that I'm still trying to use or with AstroDMX capture software. I'm losing the will to live because, when I just stuck to using my DSLR, everything was hunky dory (although that has nothing to do with the SW issue.

[Phil Perry]

Did you type in the "Jupiter 11?11?24" directory name? That U+F022 separator character looks very odd -- it's in the Unicode Private Use area. Anyway, is that something that changed from before? Could you have typed with a different keyboard encoding setup?

[Normmalin]

There is a post on CN where the same error occurred:

 

https://www.cloudyni...ocessing/page-5

 

Possible answer?

[EarthlingUk]

Did you type in the "Jupiter 11?11?24" directory name? That U+F022 separator character looks very odd -- it's in the Unicode Private Use area. Anyway, is that something that changed from before? Could you have typed with a different keyboard encoding setup?

I typed the folder name in my MacBook and I did think of this but I have done the same previously. I type the date 11/11/24 and on the windows machine, it comes out as 11.11.24 (but the dots are halfway up rather than the bottom). Also, to load on the windows machine, it has to read from the folder and has no issue doing that.

[EarthlingUk]

There is a post on CN where the same error occurred:

 

https://www.cloudyni...ocessing/page-5

 

Possible answer?

I'll have a look! 

[EarthlingUk]

There is a post on CN where the same error occurred:

 

https://www.cloudyni...ocessing/page-5

 

Possible answer?

Had a look. The issue is, this isn't just Astrosurface plus, I'm doing absolutely nothing different. I only use the PC for this work and don't even use it for internet.

[happylimpet]

Hard drive full?

[EarthlingUk]

Hard drive full?

No.

[Phil Perry]

I typed the folder name in my MacBook and I did think of this but I have done the same previously. I type the date 11/11/24 and on the windows machine, it comes out as 11.11.24 (but the dots are halfway up rather than the bottom). Also, to load on the windows machine, it has to read from the folder and has no issue doing that.

If nothing has changed, including any software updates, that's a puzzler. My suspicion is that the date format is being changed behind your back in one or more places, and some piece of software is thus looking in the wrong place for files (or the place to put them). I'm not sure who thinks they have the right to change a directory name for you...

 

BTW, you shouldn't use / in any directory name, as that's a directory separator (also \ in Windows). That might be confusing some software. Have you long used this format, or is this the first time you put a date of that format in it?

[EarthlingUk]

If nothing has changed, including any software updates, that's a puzzler. My suspicion is that the date format is being changed behind your back in one or more places, and some piece of software is thus looking in the wrong place for files (or the place to put them). I'm not sure who thinks they have the right to change a directory name for you...

 

BTW, you shouldn't use / in any directory name, as that's a directory separator (also \ in Windows). That might be confusing some software. Have you long used this format, or is this the first time you put a date of that format in it?

Phil, just wished to thank you. It turned out it was the folder name! Appreciated muchly. :-) 

[Phil Perry]

Phil, just wished to thank you. It turned out it was the folder name! Appreciated muchly. :-) 

Ah, my Computer Science graduate degree turned out to be useful after all! :-) Glad I could help.