[Therion] Recovering data marked as sent from DistoX2

[Andrew Atkinson]

Well, no solutions to the problem, but 2 days in silica gel and the sd card
works, so data safe, for which I'm most grateful :-))

Andrew
On 23 Mar 2016 7:11 p.m., "Bruce Mutton" <bruce at tomo.co.nz> wrote:

> Although if you save to the device and have a memory card installed, ptopo
> automatically backs up to the card (twice) so you have two physical chances
> that your data might be ok. (As compared to one if you save to card)
> But if you start a new file ptopo still uses the same backup names, so you
> have to manually copy the old file to the card.
> This method worked for us when our device drowned.
>
> Bruce
>
> Sent from my Samsung device, hence the typo's
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Footleg <drfootleg at gmail.com>
> Date: 24/03/2016 03:27 (GMT+12:00)
> To: List for Therion users <therion at speleo.sk>, Martin Sluka <
> martinsluka at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [Therion] Recovering data marked as sent from DistoX2
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> After all those courses we ran where I always teach people to save the
> PocketTopo files onto a memory card rather than the PDA internal memory so
> that it can be recovered in the event of a a broken PDA! Worth checking the
> memory card anyway (including with a file recover utility) because
> PocketTopo saves temporary backup files to any memory cards in the PDA
> during use. I think these get cleaned up when you save the project, but a
> recovery utility may find the files still there.
>
> Footleg
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:04 PM Andrew Atkinson <andrew at wotcc.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Yep, I could not find it, only how to mark data that had not been sent as
>> sent
>>
>> Andrew
>> On 23 Mar 2016 11:42 a.m., "Martin Sluka" <martinsluka at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you checked Beat's page?
>>>
>>> m.
>>>
>>> On Mar 23, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Andrew Atkinson <andrew at wotcc.org.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Not strictly Therion, but..
>>>
>>> Somewhere I think I have read about how to get data from a DistoX2 once
>>> it has been marked as sent it is still in the memory. (My pelicase broke
>>> on the way out of the cave and the pda was flooded, luckily the Distox2
>>> survived) So I can see the data in the DistoX, so I can just type it in
>>> manually, but it would be better to get it off electronically, then all
>>> I have lost is the diagrams, which where not much, it is a grim bit of
>>> cave to survey.
>>>
>>> Anyway if anyone knows how to get the data to be resent, I would be most
>>> data, my web searching skills do not seem to be coming up with an answer
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Andrew
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