Records are out of order, cannot continue.

[regnans]

Chamber 1 and 2 ran, Level0to1, but then it failed on Chamber 3. Could this be catching an error in the recording of the data, where the timestamp has been messed up? (BTW, the status messages for every line are really instructive. Nice one.)

2021-01-10 20:09:34,639 [INFO]: [Chamber 3 - Black_Min1.dat]    Checking record order...
2021-01-10 20:09:34,654 [INFO]: [Chamber 3 - Black_Min1.dat]            Records are out of order, cannot continue.

[amcmahon01]

Glad it's helpful, I tried to make the logs very detailed enough to make the process relatively transparent. Yes, this error often happens early in the season when we're setting things up and the clocks aren't synced yet. I haven't figured out a good way to handle it programmatically, hence the full stop. It looks like it would be helpful for the script to provide a note with what line of the source it failed on though, so I'll add that to my to-do.

[regnans]

It turns out that the very first row was out of sync. However deleting that didn't help. Then there were around 10 data rows before a time break. I deleted that block, also no success. (I saved the original file in a separate folder).
A line number report on this error would be very useful indeed!

[regnans]

Looking at the 2019 chamber data in more detail, all of the chamber files have some issues from start of collection until end 21 June. Blocks of data are duplicated, and, for example, data from the 19th is duplicated after the first records from the 20th, so that would trigger the out of order warning.