I need to issue another heads up to all the Cobalt users out there. We have discovered an error in our date display checking routine for leap year, and 2012 is a leap year.
Will it ever end?
I have a lot of concerns regarding this software.
The ongoing problem I am battling with is this. I have rarely been able to download my dives from the Cobalt at the first attempt. On average the download process is 50% successful. Tonight it seems 10% successful.
Why should I have to go through the Windows New Hardware wizard every time I plug in the Cobalt?
Often when I try to download the dives I only get as far as
Exception on 0 0 0 0 0
Followed by:
db error: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression 'DiveStartTime=? AND SerialNumber=M A **** and UserId=10'.
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextErrorHandling(OleDbHResult hr)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextForSingleResult(tagDBPARAMS dbParams, Object& executeResult)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandText(Object& executeResult)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommand(CommandBehavior behavior, Object& executeResult)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteReaderInternal(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteReader()
at CobaltLogbook.CCobaltDB.setDiveheader(DiveHeaderStruct dh, Int64 UserId)
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OK
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Followed by a longer error message.
Followed by the software crashing.
After a many many attempts I have 3 of my dives downloaded with the process frozen before the last 2.
After many more attempts I finally get the last 2 dives over to my computer.
Is there a solution?
I have a competing company's much less expensive computer as my "back up". I never have a problem with that software. And if I forget to put the "back up" computer into the right time zone, I can fix the date and times for the dives easily. I could go on and on, but out of respect for you Ron (and Darcy), I'll spare you........
You and Darcy do an amazing job for Atomic, thank-you both; I am very grateful for all of the excellent support. For a while I decided not to post about this (hoping it would go away). However I changed my mind tonight and have decided that finding and posting a solution may be the best idea as I may not be the only person battling with this.