OSCAR not saving data [solved, see post #18]

[sawinglogz]

Hello,

It reads:

C:/Users/Admin/Documents/OSCAR_DATA_ADMIN

And as which user are you trying to run OSCAR?

[mjrPdqkLguUgGLE]

I ran as Admin.

[sawinglogz]

I ran as Admin.

Please check your PMs.

[GuyScharf]

I ran as Admin.

I will send you a PM tomorrow with a link to a test version of OSCAR.  I've added more diagnostic messages for I/O errors.  I'd like you to run that test version and then send us the debug log.

Hopefully we will find out what is going on with your permission settings!

[GuyScharf]

I ran as Admin.

I am sending you a PM with a link to an installer for a test version of OSCAR.  This is a development version and has not been extensively tested.  I have added code to place messages in the debug log if any attempt to create and/or open a file fails.  Please install and run this version of OSCAR and import data. 

Be sure you are logged on with the same account when you install and when you run OSCAR.  Using different accounts on one computer could cause Windows security problems.

When you first run OSCAR, it will ask you if you want to use a directory OSCAR_Data-master.  Say 'yes' and allow OSCAR to create a new directory of this name. 

OSCAR will then ask if you want to migrate Sleepyhead data.  You can respond 'yes' if you want to do that or 'no' if you don't.

Then create a new profile and import from your SD card.

If it is working, all is good.  If not, use 'Help/Troubleshooting/Create zip of OSCAR diagnostic logs'.  Send us that zip file.

If you want to examine the debug log yourself, it is in OSCAR_Data-master/logs/debug.txt.  Search for the string "warning:".

I will also be breaking these posts into a separate thread so we can focus just on this problem in one thread.

[GuyScharf]

The posts about your problem are now in this thread. Please post replies here instead of as PMs.

Thanks.

[GuyScharf]

My answers to your questions are in red.

Your security settings look the same as on my laptop.  So I don't know what is going on with your computer.  But the "Access is denied" message indicates what is probably a permissions problem.

Let me know if the work-around I sent you has any better results.

Guy

Hello,

Your workaround made the waveform plots work!  Please check the few warnings in the debug pane to make sure everything is all right.
The debug log looks ok.

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Before the work around, why did the overview and statistics windows work?
Just guessing, but OSCAR keeps some data in memory and some is reread from disk.  Rereading from disk would fail but in-memory data might still be available.

One critique.  The duration of individual apnea eventsis important.  For example, an OA event of 80 seconds is a lot worse than one of 20 seconds, because of lower levels of of oxygen in the brain.  One cannot tell this from the flow rate graph.  Admittedly, one gets the total of all OA, but the duration at a finer time granularity is needed.
I agree; individual event duration can be very useful information.  Unfortunately, PRS1 machines do not report reliable duration data for individual events, so we cannot show individual event duration.  (OSCAR supports event duration on ResMed machines except for H and RERA events).

Also, is there a way to alter the vertical scale of the flow rate graph, so the flow rate is shorter, and hence, visually interferes less with the event lines?
You can do several things:
1)  Grab the separator bar between graphs and drag down to make a graph larger.
2)  Right click on the graph title, select Y-Axis, select Override, and enter the minimum and maximum values you want to use for the graph.
3)  Right click on the graph title, select Overlays, and disable the especially "noisy" and less useful ones like VS and VS2.

Finally, is there a way to integrate sleep data that I have from a non-APAP device.  I could do this myself by exporting the relevant data but it would be nice to use the OSCAR framework.
As a general question, no.  But it depends on the device.  OSCAR does support Somnopose, for example.  What device are you looking for support for?

Thanks once again,
mjrPdqkLguUgGLE

[GuyScharf]

fyi to anyone reading this thread: the work-around to bypass this Windows security/permissions problem was to place OSCAR_Data in some folder other than the Documents folder.  Instructions for doing that are (generalized rather than specific to this user):

1. Delete the Documents\OSCAR_Data directory.  In this case, the folder had no files so was useless anyway.  Alternatively, if you have data there, just rename the folder to anything else, like "OSCAR_Data-old".
   
2. Start OSCAR
   
3. It will ask you if it should create the Documents\OSCAR_Data directory.  Respond 'No'.
   
4. Next, we're going to create the OSCAR\Data directory in a different location, not in the Documents folder.  OSCAR will present a standard file open dialog and ask you to select a directory.  Change the current directory from C:\Users\<username>\Documents to just \Users\<username> (or other place of your choice). Create an OSCAR_Data directory in \Users\<username> and select that directory.  OK the dialog and OSCAR will continue.
   
5. OSCAR will ask if you want to import Sleepyhead data.  It's ok if you want to do that.
   
6. Import data from your SD card.
   

[sawinglogz]

Is this a standard restriction that Windows sometimes applies to a user's Documents directory, or was it unique to this computer?

[GuyScharf]

No, this is not a standard restriction. In the previous case, this was a problem with user-set permissions for the Documents folder. In this case, I'm not even sure it was a Windows restriction but perhaps some security program. We won't know for sure unless OP reports back what his "guru" found.

Windows does restrict on writing to Program Files or Program files (x86).