Beta 3 Testing

[Miika Turkia]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:52 PM, John Smith <noseygit at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> > > My divecomputers seem to give the dives to me in the right order so I
>> > > can't quite reproduce this here. So of you start with an empty dive
>> > > file
>> > > and load the 13 dives from your D4i they are not numbered in
>> > > chronological
>> > > order? Or is this an issue because you first imported 19 dives from
>> > > Divelogs.de and got numbers from there? But even then, it should only
>> > > create numbers for the dives loaded from the Suunto if they are ALL
>> > > newer
>> > > than the ones you got from Divelogs.de. So I guess I'm a bit confused
>> > > here
>> > > as to what exactly is happening.
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>> > I was doing this late last night instead of sleeping.....
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>> Oh, just like I was answering you at 3:30am...
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>> > What has actually happened is that the Divelog entries are labeled 1-19
>> > and the the dive computer entries are labeled 1-13 - which is even more
>> > confusing. I think its because there was a later dive in the divelog.de
>> > file than on the computer. Maybe a resort and re-numbe might be needed
>> > after importing from external source?
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>> So if the dive computer gives us dive numbers, we take them and don't
>> override them. I think for post 4.5 we should change that because that's
>> just bogus. But too late to change now. I cannot imagine a scenario where
>> I have numbered my dives in Subsurface, download dives from a dive
>> computer and then want the dive numbers that the dive computer gave us.
>> Yes, if there are no dives in the dive file this might make sense, but
>> other than that? I don't think so.
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> Sorry, I havent been completley clear here.
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> I have a divelogs.de logon that I planned to use when I was out of the
> coutnry and want to log a dive.
> Becasue of this, it has 17 dives from 2014 and one from september 2015.
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> I also use a Suunto Computer occasionally, and at present it has 13 dives on
> it all from this year - but excluding the one in september on my divelogs
> account.
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> Becasue I was testing, I
> 1. Loaded from Divelogs.de
> 2. Loaded from my Suunto
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> This of course added dives out of order and got subsurface confused.
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> Now I potentially might do this again - add a dive through Divelogs that
> will be earlier than the last entry, or even download my computer out of
> sequence.
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> Ideally, I would think that a date re-sort and re-number after importing
> dives would be the way to solve this, but that said I can always manually
> re-number as nexessary

We have re-numbering feature in Log -> Renumber. (Just to make sure
you know this, even though you might mean this when mentioned manually
re-numbering.)

miika