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Thanx again Niv, Brent & Paul, ,
I have had a mate look into the situation and has discovered that all is generally good with the hard drive, has done a Bios systems check and some other fancy Hard dr check with some prog, found quite a few unwanted registry files which are now gone - but all in all, nothing suspicious with the system.
The main problem is with 'currupted' Fitts Files from the QHY Astro Camera - what is causing this I am Not sure - yet ? but have some ideas ill mention directly, tho 1stly, The particular Currupted Fitts files will Not move anywhere, no matter how you choose to move them, My mate Marty tried to move them via network to his PC, also tried moving them from with-in the my lappy - they wont budge !!! I thought I could move them before, as I grabbed one and move it to another folder on the lappy - but is was not a currupted one - Corrupted ones Wont Budge ! !
Ive also come to a guess conclusion that the Mac files must of come from another mates Mac who recently put some Folk (music band) movies on the stick - only possible logical way going by Link Niv, cheers for that ! But doubt they are the problem because we have 'Dumped all of them and the Currupted Fitts Files 'Remain' a problem !
Any way, I will be (tomoro) moving file by file and making note of the ones that are currupt - unfortunately I will need to shut down and restart each time I come accross a currupted file as it freezes the lappy, Grrr ! going to a borring episode, but have to do it !
Also, I wont be deleting the currupted file until I have all the good files safely on the stick as deleting currupted file may also cause a freezing of the lappy, so will deal with that after !
So, why/how are these QHY Fitts files being currupted, I have a couple of suspisions but nothing concrete yet ?
A) Sometimes when capturing images via the EXYCAP QHY aquisition Prog that is set up to do x amount of images - because of bad seeing, sometimes the Guide Star will Drop Out, so there is and Option on the Image aquisition 'Planner' to 'Force Stop' I use as no need carrying on with the last 10 mins of a 12-15min sub if it has had the guide star drop out - just something I am thinking as the currupted files seem roughley match the amount and frequency of guide star drop-outs I had over them 5 nights. Not sure, tho might run a query on the QHY Forums ? ?
B) The only thin I did differently on the few nights was I had my DSLR doing widefields at the same time, piggy backed' and my lappy has only two USB ports and one is used for the mouse, so I have a four way USB Hub to run communication for the QHY10, the Guide Camera and this time, The DSLR as well and wondering if the QHY & DSLR may have coincidently be trying to upload/transfer images at the same time and whether this may have caused some 'Confusion' and produced this curruption ? ?
To tell the truth, Im only grabbing at straws, but may be worth considering ?
What are your thoughts ?
I have about 5-7% currupted so far and am about 1/5 of the way through from what we did earlier tonight. Ill have a better idea tomoro !
Cheers for your guidance, direction and input all, it has been helpfull !
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