Topic: Lost data in Weatherlink display

[AndrewM]

I have lost all data display after 12th June 2020. I still have all the *.wlk files to date but can't work out how to re-load them. I may have had a power cut yesterday which possibly corrupted something on crash off of my desktop PC. Can anyone advise what to do now? Running Windows10 with Weatherlink 6.0.5. Thanks!

[Mattk]

12th June 2020? Correct? If you have *.wlk files in a backup then first check the contents of station where the *.wlk files are stored. Typically this will be under the WeatherLink folder where Station name is created e.g ..../WeatherLink/Station_Name

If there's no WLK files then you can simply copy the backup WLK files into your Station_Name folder. 

[AndrewM]

Thanks. I had tried that several times without success but suddenly they all re-appeared! No idea why. I must do some housekeeping as I have two stations showing with the same name ([myname]2) but the folder is only [myname]. I also discovered that you can have a long station name [myname]2025_06_20 but the folder get truncated to the first 8 letters and becomes [myname]20. They don't tell you this. Maybe the software goes back to the old DOS days of 8 characters.