Newbie Merging

[navillus]

I have been trying to merge simple data from ios to macdive. However each time macdive is duplicating the dive. My procedure as follows. Downloaded data from Vyper in to macdive, with a dive number, lets say 25.
Created new dive on ios with location information etc.
Made sure that that date and time are the same.
After synching, i get 2 dives, each number 25, one with the dive computer profile, the other with the location info etc from ios.
why isn't this merging into 1 dive number 25. This seems so basic but must be missing something here.
I have looked through your sync help, but cant find my answer

thank you for your help

Chris

[joelaposta]

I had this issue in the past and it turned out to be that I didn't have the dive computer selected on the iOS app (or not spelled exactly the same as on MacDive), so it didn't see the two as a matched dive.

[navillus]

Could have been this, but computer names are the same on ios and macdive. I am baffled, and this surely is a basic.
There's a solution, I will manually copy everything i've entered on ios, into macdive, but doesnt that defeat the object?

[nick]

As joel says, often this is because you have two different dive computers so a match is not found - this is so that when you are merging multiple dives with different computers, the correct thing is matched.

It's difficult to say anything more specific without seeing your data, but the Dives summary will tell you if things were matched or will be added - that's the point where you need to verify everything looks correct before you sync.