C & G Data Collector

[Matthew Barksdale]

One of our field crews is about 4 hours away and recieved the error message in his MC V collector "OPEN CF" and he cannot get back in the job that he was working out of. HE has been staying at the Job site and has collected some 250 coordinates since he as dumped the job to a computer. My question is, is there any way to recover the file without losing about 2 full days of work plus travel time.

Thanks

MTB<br

[Leland Myers]

I recently acquired one of the Psion Workabouts and it too is given me an "OPEN RF" error I believe rather than CF. I cannot access any routine because of error messages. Traverse, Inverse and such give an "OPEN CRD FILE" error and there is not a coordinate file in the Workabout. When I try to open the default TEST file same error message. None of these error messages are listed in the Workabout or CG Fieldplus manuals. I have done everything but a hard reset which will lose all the settings, but fortunately for me I don't have any collected data in it. It looks like Tech Support doesn't have the answer either since your posting is two days old and my email to them is over 30 hours old. I have around 30 years of experience using computers in my surveying business initially programming my own COGO in Basic and my biggest petpeeve is incomplete manuals.

[Richard Henline]

Well first of all, the message you are posting the response under is having trouble with a MCV not a PSION. Second the reason you did not get tech support is because the used Psions were sold as-is with no tech support. The Psion is telling you that it is having a problem opening a crd file. The used psion came with a 1 meg ram card check to see that the ram card was formatted and that the path under opt1, 2: is set to b:\ if not format the card and set the correct path. If you do a hard re-boot you will lose the st.opt file from the m: drive and will have to use rcom to reload it. If b: does not work as you default path try m: and see if you still get the same error messages