VPHOT upload problem

Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Wed, 03/25/2015 - 00:48

For the second time in the past week I can not upload certain images - they seem to disappear.  I'm suspicious that its because the same target is imaged a couple of hours earlier, and the only difference in the file name is the time tag in the file name - e.g. calibrated-t50-gmyers.raso-a-asas j174600-2321.3-20150324-024259-b-bin1-e-120-001.fit on one image and calibrated-t50-gmyers.raso-a-asas j174600-2321.3-20150324-054746-b-bin1-e-120-001.fit on the other.   They are obviously long file names and maybe that's part of the issue.

Also, when I tried to upload 3 images, the status bar did not complete before moving on to the next image.  See the attached screen capture taken during the upload.

 

Gordon

Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
These filenames are ~85

These filenames are ~85 characters long. The file system allows character names, by which they mean the full character path of the name (i.e. C:\data\aavso\filename.dat as an example) to be ~200 characters. We shouldn't have a problem, but there are several mitigating factors depending on the individual programs involved in the chain.

Honestly, my first thought would be to shorten the filenames as a test.

-Doc Kinne