Karl,<div><br></div><div> This update seems to be coming with lots of new upload issues. I have finished the Psion and adlib uploads that I normally do, with the exception of one psion file which I need to re-enter by hand as the psion faultered when converting the file. However, I have now gotten to the point of extracting the adlibs from Courtney's psion data. I have them all extracted and now have files that are ready to upload. My question is, these are all data that have time stamps associated with them, which I Would hate to lose since we already have them attached to the data. However, they ALL have only start times and no stop times, as there are no Consorts, only M,E,G,A (haha mega..). So, if I upload directly into actor_actees without a stop time, will it fill in the stop time with the start time as it does with regular psion files?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Looking at the old foxpro data (aka data that was uploaded before Babase 2.0) it looks like it used to be the case that the times would just match, but in the newer data, starting in 06B with the first Babase 2.0 upload (where I have been leaving stop blank in excel files for handwritten data for M and E) stop is just blank.</div>
<div>Am I doing something wrong? Is this ok?</div><div><br></div><div>The files I will be uploading have the following columns:</div><div>date, actor, actee, act, start</div><div><br></div><div>Should I add a stop column and just leave it blank?</div>
<div><br></div><div>The documentation says:</div><div><br></div><div>Stop:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">The time the interaction stopped or, in the case of all-occurrences data, the time the interaction was recorded in the field.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At any rate, I'm not sure it makes a difference if stop is Null or matches start.. I just wanted to know what to expect, and couldn't discern that from the documentation.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thanks!</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lacey<br clear="all"></span></font><br>-- <br>- -<br>Lacey K. Maryott Roerish<br>Alberts Lab<br>
Department of Biology<br>Duke University<br>ph: 919-660-7306<br>fax: 919-660-7293<br><a href="mailto:Lacey.Maryott@duke.edu">Lacey.Maryott@duke.edu</a><br>
</div>