Downloading from computer after having merged some dives
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 1:45 pm
Hi Nick - As always, I consider MacDive to be a great program and keep pointing it out to various friends.
I have one suggestion. Especially on training dives one might pop up to the surface for a few minutes to chat/review something. Since it's all on the same tank and without exiting the water, I prefer to count those multiple segments as one dive even if my Shearwater Perdix AI automatically records them as separate dives. As an example, on Sep. 15 I might have started a dive at 13:00, popped up at 13:10 for a few minutes. Let's call that dive A. After floating on the surface, I go back down at 13:18 and surface at 14:00. Let's call that dive B.
Next, let's say that on Sep. 22 I do another two dives (dives C and D).
Now, when I downloaded dives on Sep. 16 I would have merged dives A and B, giving me 1 dive on Sep. 16. But then on Sep. 23 when I download dives it will actually download 3: one of the "joined" dives (that is, either A or B as a new dive) plus the two new dives C and D.
Is there a way to check the time times for overlaps so that the download on Sep. 23 would not re-load one of the "joined" dives A or B from Sep. 15?
Thanks, Chris Jacobsen
I have one suggestion. Especially on training dives one might pop up to the surface for a few minutes to chat/review something. Since it's all on the same tank and without exiting the water, I prefer to count those multiple segments as one dive even if my Shearwater Perdix AI automatically records them as separate dives. As an example, on Sep. 15 I might have started a dive at 13:00, popped up at 13:10 for a few minutes. Let's call that dive A. After floating on the surface, I go back down at 13:18 and surface at 14:00. Let's call that dive B.
Next, let's say that on Sep. 22 I do another two dives (dives C and D).
Now, when I downloaded dives on Sep. 16 I would have merged dives A and B, giving me 1 dive on Sep. 16. But then on Sep. 23 when I download dives it will actually download 3: one of the "joined" dives (that is, either A or B as a new dive) plus the two new dives C and D.
Is there a way to check the time times for overlaps so that the download on Sep. 23 would not re-load one of the "joined" dives A or B from Sep. 15?
Thanks, Chris Jacobsen