1 Reply by Syrphus

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Re: A bug in the import wizard.

When importing from Excel to R6, at the stage of matching species names, there is a fatal bug.  If a name is unmatched, one can type the first few letters of the name, hit Enter, and the possible options appear from the active checklist.

If, however, the initial string is edited in the dialogue box by deleting characters (e.g. as I did today, ‘Otir’ to ‘Otior’, and as I have replicated several times with other strings) the application closes, and a box alerts me to the fact that R6 has stopped working (by that stage no message is needed!).

This has happened often enough in the past few days to make me *very* careful to type accurately, and if I need to try another string, cancel and open the dialogue again rather than risk a crash.  But I'm sure that should not happen.

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2 Reply by Lynn Heeley

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Re: A bug in the import wizard.

Thanks for flagging this Murdo - I will look into it.
Lynn

3 Reply by RobLarge

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Re: A bug in the import wizard.

I tried to reproduce this on my laptop and in the office and it didn't happen with either of them, did it produce an error report?

Rob Large
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4 Reply by Syrphus

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Re: A bug in the import wizard.

Not that I am aware - where would I find one?

I have just replicated the fault, so I did not imagine it.

On deleting the search string in the dialogue box, the egg-timer appears, the screen pales, and Windows tells me the program has stopped working, with a 'Close program' button.

I am running the latest update, on Vista, standalone.

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5 Reply by RobLarge

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Re: A bug in the import wizard.

If recorder managed the error there should be a file called LastError.txt in the root Recorder 6 folder, but it sounds like it was Vista managing the error so there may not be one.

I'm still on XP, so maybe I should withdraw gracefully from this conversation.

Good luck with it though

Rob Large
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6 Reply by Syrphus

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Re: A bug in the import wizard.

And it also happens in the same way when matching names.

Ah, well, it's time for a cuppa anyway!

M.

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7 Reply by Lynn Heeley

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Re: A bug in the import wizard.

Hi Murdo, this definately isn't happening on XP - this sounds like Vista is in interfering! I'll see if John has any ideas.
Cheers,
Lynn

8 Reply by johnvanbreda

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Re: A bug in the import wizard.

Hi All,
I don't think it is Vista interfering, but an intermittent bug which is harder to reproduce in XP. I'm sure I saw this happen a while back though. The bug is probably some kind of threading error, so it just bombs the app out rather than displaying an exception.
Sounds like this needs to go on the bug list Lynn, I don't think there is any quick solution other than to type carefully.

Best Wishes

John van Breda
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