.edat file not created

[David McFarlane]

Erika,

Stock reminder:  1) I do not work for PST.  2) PST's trained staff 
takes any and all questions at 
http://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp , and they 
strive to respond to all requests in 24-48 hours -- this is pretty 
much their substitute for proper documentation, so make full use of 
it.  3) If you do get an answer from PST Web Support, please extend 
the courtesy of posting their reply back here for the sake of others.

That said, here is my take...

Indeed, if you have an "attribute" named "Block", then you will get 
exactly the error message that you got (yes, the error message 
incorrectly says "variable", attributes are not variables as we have 
been discussing in another thread this week).  So, just go into the 
.es2 file with E-Studio and rename that attribute, you should not 
find that hard to do.

As to recovering your data from the .txt file, this might be done but 
is not trivial.  In principle, if you can decipher the structure of 
the data in the .txt file, you could just edit the offending "Block" 
attribute in any text editor (e.g., Windows Notepad) to make it 
acceptable to E-Recovery, but this is not for the faint of 
heart.  You might instead take this up with PST Support, who might 
help with this.

Do you really have a lot of .txt files to convert?  How many subjects 
did you run before you decided that having the program crash at the 
end of each session was a bad sign?

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>My experimental program is having the following problem.  The text 
>file is created, but not the .edat file and I am getting an error 
>saying, "Reading txt file- variable name is same as level 
>name".  And when I try to recover the .edat file using E-Recovery 
>the resulting .edat file only contains one row.  I think it might 
>have to do with naming one of my variables Block.  Please let me 
>know if there is anyway to 1) modify my code to be able to have it 
>automatically generate an .edat file and 2) convert the txt files I 
>have to .edat.  I have attached the code, txt, and .edat files.
>
>--
>Erika Nyhus, Ph.D.
>Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
>Brown University
>190 Thayer St.
>Providence, RI 02912-1821

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