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Title: WeatherLink Data Issues With V6.03
Post by: stormwatch on October 12, 2018, 01:09:54 PM
Hi,

Been using Weatherlink for 10+ years with no major problems. Upgraded to V6.03 last year and still no issues. Several Months ago I moved about 7 miles down from my former location and made a new Station as I've done es previously over 10+ years. WeatherLink V6.0 is causing me so many headaches now with my previous 2 years of archived data. Website is www.carolinastormwatch.com using the latest Version of WD.

I have spent the last 2 months trying to get the last 2 years of data back in WeatherLink. The last 2 years of data was lost is not in NOAA Reports including This Month(10/2018). I have read the formums many times, the instruction Manuals and obviously I am missing something. If I enter Browse all my records appear but when I click on a day, month or year the data is is not there (since 3/2017). The days, months and years since 11/2001 are there but if I pick (ie.) August 2017 the month comes up but is not populated. I probably deleted a file(s) by mistake. How can I get the last 2 archived  years back. I have tried so many things I can't name them all.  :?:

I have attached a couple shots of what I am trying to explain. ANY help with finding the correct way (database to import and how) would be greatly appreciated!!! :roll:

Tom M.










Title: Re: WeatherLink Data Issues With V6.03
Post by: Bushman on October 12, 2018, 02:01:55 PM
Where are all your .WLK (Weatherlink) files?
Title: Re: WeatherLink Data Issues With V6.03
Post by: stormwatch on October 12, 2018, 05:20:01 PM
Where are all your .WLK (Weatherlink) files?

Hi Bushman,

My .wlk files are in the New Station Folder like I have had them. That is where they have always been. I am just puzzled over this whole issue. I went as far as to uninstall Weatherlink about a week (saved my files) ago and reinstalled. I installed WeatherLink where I always have on my C: Drive but I did not put it in Program Files  which I NEVER have. Don't think this an issue.

Thanks,

Tom
Title: Re: WeatherLink Data Issues With V6.03
Post by: Mattk on October 12, 2018, 05:27:20 PM
So do have all the .WLK files or have they been lost (deleted)? If you don't have them and don't have a backup then you would have to consider them gone, period.

If you do have all the files then before going any further archive and backup all the .WLK files before going any further in case you have a total malfunction. You may have a corrupted .WLK which is preventing loading further files beyond a certain point?
Title: Re: WeatherLink Data Issues With V6.03
Post by: stormwatch on October 12, 2018, 07:56:02 PM
So do have all the .WLK files or have they been lost (deleted)? If you don't have them and don't have a backup then you would have to consider them gone, period.

If you do have all the files then before going any further archive and backup all the .WLK files before going any further in case you have a total malfunction. You may have a corrupted .WLK which is preventing loading further files beyond a certain point?

Hi Mark. Yes, I have all of my .wlk files from 11/2001 thru the present. To be honest the only thing I can think of is maybe there is a corrupted .wlk file but all of my Logfiles in WD are correct. Not sure where the the corrupted .wlk file could possibly be but I will try to look again and see if one doesn't look right and try that.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Tom M.
Title: Re: WeatherLink Data Issues With V6.03
Post by: Bushman on October 12, 2018, 08:13:11 PM
Look for one with zero bytes, or very large file sizes.  If all else fails, get a copy of J. Ruys' WLKReaderWriter and query them one by one.
Title: Re: WeatherLink Data Issues With V6.03
Post by: stormwatch on October 12, 2018, 09:06:38 PM
Look for one with zero bytes, or very large file sizes.  If all else fails, get a copy of J. Ruys' WLKReaderWriter and query them one by one.
Hey Bushman,

Got it! I looked very carefully and found 4/2017 .wlk file that was 685,652 kb and deleted it (saved them all first). BOOM!! That was the culprit. For 2 months off and on I have tried every thing and now in one day everything is populated in NOAA Reports. The strange thing is 2017 and half of 2018 were there before. I have the WlK Reader/Writer Utility Tool but never have been able to get it to work right. I'll give it another shot.

Thanks guys for the assistance!

Tom M.
Title: Re: WeatherLink Data Issues With V6.03
Post by: Bushman on October 12, 2018, 09:16:43 PM
Awesome - glad you found the bad actor.  WLKRW should be able to clean up the messy file.  Or just DL the data from WU and use WLKRW to create  a new on for that month.  :)
Title: Re: WeatherLink Data Issues With V6.03
Post by: stormwatch on October 13, 2018, 10:43:44 AM
Awesome - glad you found the bad actor.  WLKRW should be able to clean up the messy file.  Or just DL the data from WU and use WLKRW to create  a new on for that month.  :)

Any idea where I can get instructions for the WLKRW? I think maybe I can find them again here on the Forum: just didn't see them but I'll do a more thorough search. Amu updated versions?

Thanks!

Tom
Title: Re: WeatherLink Data Issues With V6.03
Post by: PaulMy on October 13, 2018, 12:01:34 PM
I haven't gone through it but this http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=10144.msg291063#msg291063 (http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=10144.msg291063#msg291063) may be helpful

Enjoy,
Paul