PR System One REMstar File format

I'm trying to figure out the file structure of this machine. I used to be able to read the card with both Sleepyhead and the Philips software, but lately neither program seems to be able to read the SD card.
I can read the card in my computer - but I noticed that it has two folders, where before I do not believe it had any. Can anyone help with how the file structure works on these systems? I can upload the structure that I see on the card if that is a help.

thanks,
Todd

There can be more than one folder in the P Series folder (the main folder).
The P0 Folder is a subfolder in the Pserialnumber folder and that's where the data files are stored.
Typically 3 file types for each session xxx.001, xxx.002 and xxx.005. The xxx.005 are the flow rate graph files or wave form graphs.
Perhaps the SD card has a bad sector on it.
You can buy a cheap generic SD card..slide it in your machine...let it write the stored data to the SD card (xx.005 files are not stored on the machine) and then try your software to see if it will work.
You can also try erasing the existing SD card and starting totally fresh with it.

So I looked at my SD card, and here is the directory of what is on it. What I think is confusing the software is that it does not know what subfolder to look into. Can I combine them all into a single subfolder?
Volume in drive I has no label.
Volume Serial Number is E43C-2CD4

Directory of I:\

02/22/2010 04:57 PM <DIR> P-SERIES
0 File(s) 0 bytes

Directory of I:\P-SERIES

02/22/2010 04:57 PM <DIR> .
02/22/2010 04:57 PM <DIR> ..
04/29/2013 03:51 PM 115 encore.txt
02/23/2010 07:23 AM 3,200 encore.txt.XML
10/31/2013 08:06 AM 13 last.txt
03/16/2010 06:51 AM <DIR> P00142956EB94
04/29/2013 10:53 PM 8 usedRESP.000
04/29/2013 10:53 PM 8 usedRESP.002
5 File(s) 3,344 bytes

Directory of I:\P-SERIES\P00142956EB94

03/16/2010 06:51 AM <DIR> .
03/16/2010 06:51 AM <DIR> ..
11/03/2010 02:05 PM 165 00a86abb-c682-44b2-8f6f-e95c9424b53f.sync
03/16/2010 06:52 AM <DIR> e
03/16/2010 06:51 AM <DIR> p0
03/03/2011 12:33 PM <DIR> p1
04/22/2012 07:16 AM <DIR> p2
04/06/2013 01:47 PM <DIR> p3
11/03/2013 03:11 PM 338 properties.txt
2 File(s) 503 bytes

Directory of I:\P-SERIES\P00142956EB94\p0

03/16/2010 06:51 AM <DIR> .
03/16/2010 06:51 AM <DIR> ..
03/16/2010 06:51 AM 7,962 0000000001.001
03/16/2010 06:52 AM 32,713 0000000064.002
03/16/2010 01:03 PM 77 0000000102.001
03/16/2010 01:03 PM 1,776 0000000102.002
03/16/2010 01:03 PM 112,054 0000000102.005
03/17/2010 05:30 AM 77 0000000103.001
03/17/2010 05:30 AM 56 0000000103.002
03/17/2010 05:30 AM 156 0000000103.005
03/17/2010 09:16 AM 77 0000000104.001
03/17/2010 09:16 AM 805 0000000104.002
03/17/2010 09:16 AM 52,075 0000000104.005
[snipped list of files here because of message length limitation]
03/01/2011 02:30 PM 77 0000000480.001
03/01/2011 02:30 PM 373 0000000480.002
03/01/2011 02:30 PM 25,212 0000000480.005
1000 File(s) 16,828,545 bytes

Directory of I:\P-SERIES\P00142956EB94\e

03/16/2010 06:52 AM <DIR> .
03/16/2010 06:52 AM <DIR> ..
03/16/2010 06:52 AM 36 000.004.uploaded
05/06/2010 12:47 PM 36 001.004.uploaded
07/08/2010 11:35 AM 27 002.004.uploaded
08/19/2010 12:59 PM 36 003.004.uploaded
11/28/2010 04:10 PM 36 004.004
11/29/2010 11:22 AM 36 005.004
01/02/2011 10:18 AM 36 006.004
02/05/2011 02:54 PM 36 007.004
05/31/2011 03:54 AM 27 008.004
05/31/2011 03:54 AM 27 009.004
06/02/2011 07:35 AM 36 010.004
11/04/2011 04:21 AM 27 011.004
04/18/2012 06:27 PM 27 012.004
04/19/2012 07:23 AM 27 013.004
07/04/2012 09:12 AM 27 014.004
07/05/2012 12:33 PM 27 015.004
07/11/2012 12:06 PM 27 016.004
07/13/2012 10:33 AM 27 017.004
07/15/2012 01:38 PM 27 018.004
09/26/2012 06:24 AM 36 019.004
10/20/2012 01:20 PM 27 020.004
10/20/2012 01:43 PM 27 021.004
10/21/2012 01:28 PM 27 022.004
10/26/2012 12:06 PM 27 023.004
10/26/2012 12:07 PM 27 024.004
11/11/2012 10:56 AM 36 025.004
11/11/2012 12:26 PM 27 026.004
11/11/2012 12:54 PM 27 027.004
11/11/2012 01:40 PM 27 028.004
11/13/2012 07:49 AM 27 029.004
11/13/2012 07:58 AM 36 030.004
11/13/2012 08:24 AM 27 031.004
11/15/2012 09:33 AM 27 032.004
11/15/2012 10:38 AM 27 033.004
11/15/2012 10:50 AM 27 034.004
11/15/2012 10:51 AM 27 035.004
11/17/2012 02:19 AM 27 036.004
01/18/2013 11:41 AM 36 037.004
01/28/2013 08:17 AM 27 038.004
02/11/2013 12:42 AM 27 039.004
02/19/2013 12:38 PM 27 040.004
02/21/2013 12:35 PM 27 041.004
03/02/2013 08:02 AM 27 042.004
03/03/2013 12:49 PM 27 043.004
03/16/2013 09:15 AM 27 044.004
03/20/2013 12:59 PM 27 045.004
03/23/2013 10:47 AM 27 046.004
04/05/2013 07:23 AM 27 047.004
06/07/2013 08:54 AM 36 048.004
11/17/2012 02:19 AM 329 core.log
50 File(s) 1,769 bytes

Directory of I:\P-SERIES\P00142956EB94\p1

03/03/2011 12:33 PM <DIR> .
03/03/2011 12:33 PM <DIR> ..
03/03/2011 02:43 PM 77 0000000481.001
03/03/2011 02:43 PM 607 0000000481.002
03/03/2011 02:43 PM 41,202 0000000481.005
03/04/2011 03:17 PM 77 0000000482.001
03/04/2011 03:16 PM 269 0000000482.002
03/04/2011 03:16 PM 17,837 0000000482.005
03/05/2011 03:00 PM 77 0000000483.001
03/05/2011 03:00 PM 506 0000000483.002
03/05/2011 03:00 PM 34,158 0000000483.005
[snipped list of files here because of message length limitation]
04/21/2012 04:51 PM 77 0000000888.001
04/21/2012 04:51 PM 1,147 0000000888.002
04/21/2012 04:51 PM 75,600 0000000888.005
1000 File(s) 18,871,921 bytes

Directory of I:\P-SERIES\P00142956EB94\p2

04/22/2012 07:16 AM <DIR> .
04/22/2012 07:16 AM <DIR> ..
04/22/2012 02:30 PM 77 0000000889.001
04/22/2012 02:30 PM 1,843 0000000889.002
04/22/2012 02:30 PM 133,978 0000000889.005
[snipped list of files here because of message length limitation]
04/05/2013 12:40 PM 77 0000001296.001
04/05/2013 12:40 PM 1,443 0000001296.002
04/05/2013 12:40 PM 98,420 0000001296.005
04/06/2013 01:47 PM 1,069 0000001297.002
04/06/2013 01:46 PM 66,450 0000001297.005
999 File(s) 20,152,960 bytes

Directory of I:\P-SERIES\P00142956EB94\p3

04/06/2013 01:47 PM <DIR> .
04/06/2013 01:47 PM <DIR> ..
04/06/2013 01:47 PM 114 0000001297.001
04/07/2013 04:30 PM 77 0000001298.001
04/07/2013 04:30 PM 942 0000001298.002
04/07/2013 04:30 PM 66,644 0000001298.005
[snipped list of files here because of message length limitation]
11/03/2013 08:42 AM 77 0000001569.001
11/03/2013 08:42 AM 800 0000001569.002
11/03/2013 08:41 AM 54,456 0000001569.005
11/03/2013 01:30 PM 77 0000001570.001
11/03/2013 01:30 PM 1,225 0000001570.002
11/03/2013 01:30 PM 87,318 0000001570.005
11/03/2013 03:10 PM 77 0000001571.001
11/03/2013 03:10 PM 446 0000001571.002
11/03/2013 03:10 PM 29,880 0000001571.005
822 File(s) 19,025,002 bytes

Total Files Listed:
3878 File(s) 74,884,044 bytes
21 Dir(s) 1,937,666,048 bytes free

Actually the most common problem with SleepyHead and the Respironics machines is that people are trying to direct the upload to the PSeries folder or some other folder.
Stop at the root directory letter where the SD card sits.
In your case I directory. If any thing other than I is in the directory to choose from you have gone to far.
Don't go to the PSeries folder and for sure don't try to go further into the SD card.

Have you tried "create a new location" and make sure that the navigation points only to that root drive letter where the SD card sits?

You have about 3 years of data on your card.

The folders P0, P1, etc. are the machines way of saying it has stored enough in a folder and needs to make a new folder. It is an internal addressing limitation.

The file LAST.TXT tells the software the location of the most current data.
It's likely that it is corrupted somehow.

Try creating a new SD card and letting the machine download all the files in its memory to the new card.
Then mark everything as READ-ONLY and copy the files from the old card to the new one, telling the copy command to skip any duplicate files.

This should copy only the waveform data files to the new card.

Finally remove the READ-ONLY status.

This may get you back in service.

Hi rubatoguy,

JDS74 wrote:Try creating a new SD card and letting the machine download all the files in its memory to the new card.

What JDS74 said. Did you ever "back up" your card to your computer's hard drive? The .005 files won't show up on the new card for the dates that are just in the machine's memory, so having them saved is important if you want to see your wave forms for those dates in the future. SleepyHead should be tolerant of you reloading the .005 files onto the new card to match the dates the machine downloads its memory to your new card (so the .005 files are back in with the machine's .001 and .002 files)... but I don't know about Encore. If you save the P-Series files to your computer you can put things back to whatever the machine had as "normal" if transferring files messes up anything.

I see you've got many error files (the .004 files in the "e" folder). I've never seen the .004.uploaded file listing before (with that "uploaded" appended). Had you turned in your card for a DME to read or were you on modem back at that time? If you ever wish to decode the error messages, here is the list of PRS1 "e" codes:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=91178&p=843803#p843803

--SleepyCPAP

Also, take a look at "last.txt" and "properties.txt". These both provide information about where the programs should look for the latest data.

The "EDF" format is at least part of the puzzle.

"Polyman" is one tool that will look at the data.

I never dug into it much farther than that.

Thanks for all the suggestions I will try them. When I go to my doctor, they take out the SD card and upload it to their files to print out the data.
I'll try out your suggestions and report back on the success.

Does anyone know if there is a size limit to how large an SD card you can use in the machine?

regards,
Todd