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Friday

I finally got the last piece of a puzzle that’s been causing me issues the last few days. The SFTP connection was periodically choking on one project and loosing a file when it did so. This made no sense as everything ran through the same SFTP. Friday it happened to a similar project. This means it’s not the project but the way it connects. I did the last bit of a research and what it was doing was trying to write to the same log file with two different processes at the same time. When this happened, it died a little bit.

Monday was mitigation day. Simplest solution, due to a lack of ability to control the log file, was to write a batch file I call with an External Program step. The batch runs off some WinSCP commands, and Bob’s your uncle.

Now to turn everything back on that I turned off for troubleshooting.

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Change of pace

I got really tired of working on the same project everyday at work. I’ve been taking distractions as they come, but I mixed it up today. I focused on one project to get a done. I’ve now got a workflow for Ricoh Process Director. It’s ugly, but it works. Now to get it extending to other things. It was kind of a double whammy for me though, as this is over of those things I’ve been hesitant to work on as I’m not 100% sure what I’m doing. It’s the good ol imposter syndrome kicking in. Today it was the imposter syndrome getting kicked in the teeth instead.