Error Syncing Media File to .cha File

siddhi patel

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Oct 7, 2025, 2:02:05 PMOct 7

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Hi,

I’m having trouble syncing a media file with my .cha file. I’ve attached a screenshot of the issue. I created a folder with the media name and added both the .cha file and the media file to that folder. When I select the media file, it still gives me an error asking me to move the media file.

Could you please help me resolve this issue? I also noticed that there is an “xxx” in the Tape location section — could that be related to the problem? I’m not sure how to correctly set or locate that path.

Thank you so much for your help

Brian Macwhinney

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Oct 7, 2025, 8:02:35 PMOct 7

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Siddhi,

The culprit is the period that you have in the file name. CLAN reads the name up to the period and things that what follows is the file type.

— Brian MacWhinney

Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology,

Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU

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siddhi patel

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Oct 8, 2025, 2:19:01 PMOct 8

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Thank you so much! I have a quick follow-up question — is it possible to change the bullet duration? My current template is set to 2 seconds, but I’d like to extend it to 10 seconds.

Best,

Siddhi Patel

Leonid Spektor

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Oct 8, 2025, 2:42:52 PMOct 8

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Please look at section "5.3 Transcriber Mode" in CLAN manual https://talkbank.org/0info/manuals/CLAN.pdf. Look for F5 function.

Leonid.

On Oct 8, 2025, at 14:18, siddhi patel <siddhi....@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you so much! I have a quick follow-up question — is it possible to change the bullet duration? My current template is set to 2 seconds, but I’d like to extend it to 10 seconds.

Best,
Siddhi Patel

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM Brian Macwhinney <ma...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

Siddhi,
The culprit is the period that you have in the file name. CLAN reads the name up to the period and thinks that what follows is the file type.

— Brian MacWhinney
Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology,
Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU

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