save guider images

[Tim Moody]

Today I discovered Documents\PHD2 that had 217 G of files going back to 2022. Enable Diagnostic Image Logging is not checked nor are any of the items under Save Guider Images. So first question is can I simply delete these folders. Then why are these files saved and why were they not removed after 60 days?

Logs are at https://openphdguiding.org/logs/dl/PHD2_logs_D7SW.zip.

Thanks for your help.

[Bruce Waddington]

To avoid wasting time, can you tell us what these files are?  The file names inside the folders will tell you why they were saved - I suspect they are failed auto-find images but it would be nice to know that for sure.  In any case, you can delete them, they aren't used by PHD2, they are simply being saved there for possible diagnostic use by you.

Bruce

[Tim Moody]

Thanks. Here is a sample; I have already deleted some. Currently they are all AutoSelectFail, and I think this was true of the ones I deleted. To be clear these files are saved regardless of the state of  Enable Diagnostic Image Logging? And they are never removed?

[Bruce Waddington]

I've looked into this, and it's a bug in PHD2.  I was quite surprised because this is old code, but I think we must have changed a folder-naming convention sometime in the past and missed this dependency.  Whatever the reason, we've fixed the problem and the correction will be part of the next dev release.  The policy is for all of these  "CameraFrames" diagnostic directories  to be removed after 30 days.  We intentionally log AutoFind failures because they are a common source of questions and we want to have the necessary data to provide support without asking people to enable a diagnostic setting and then try to replicate the incident.  

Thanks for letting us know about the problem.

Bruce

[Tim Moody]

Thanks. I'm actually quite happy to find out about this, as I often have trouble knowing exactly what the guide camera sees. (I am imaging with an SCT and OAG.)

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[Bruce Waddington]

In addition to the various diagnostic imaging options, you can always do a File/Save to capture whatever image is currently being displayed.  It's saved in a fits format so whatever imaging app you use should be able to open it - but keep in mind there is no scaling done in PHD2, it works with the raw data.