Do identical variable names cause lost data?

[laumh]

Something interesting (not in a good way) happened in my experiment. The experiment had 4 questionnaires in it, but data did not collect for the last questionnaire. Even though the person went through the entire experiment, their final questionnaire data did not appear in either the ByVariable or ByQuestionnaire folders...they didn't appear in the .txt file either. After the first three questionnaires and their data, it lists the last one, but with no data. I found this odd because the WriteData box was definitely checked. I created this questionnaire by copying the third one and modifying some file names, but the variable names were the same. When I tried to run the questionnaire by itself later, it did not collect any data. Seems like it got corrupted somehow. Anyway, now I need to rerun half my experiment! Arrrgh

[jarvis24]

That sounds pretty weird. Can you zip your entire data folder and send it to me along with a copy of your exp and que files? I'll take a look and see if I can tell what happened.

Update 8/22/06:

Variables that were not being written to the byQuestionnaire data files were being skipped because they did not have a valid value in the 'WriteText' column. The WriteText column is supposed to have a 1 if the variable is numeric and a 2 if the variable is text. For whatever reason, these variables all had a 3 in this column. Very strange. We'll add a trap to detect that just in case anyone else enters or otherwise ends up with values other than 1 or 2 there.