Other Data Files

Besides the per-experiment folders, Blackchirp keeps three subfolders at the top of the Data Storage Location that are not tied to any single experiment.

rollingdata/

This folder holds the long-running monitoring data plotted on the Rolling Data tab. Data are organized into one folder per year, each containing one folder per month; within a month, Blackchirp writes one CSV file per rolling-data source. The file format, the identifier scheme, and the history-trimming behavior are described on Rolling/Aux Data. (The per-experiment auxdata.csv uses a closely related format and is documented on General Experiment Files.)

log/

This folder holds the application-wide log. All messages shown on the Log tab are written here in semicolon-delimited CSV, one file per calendar month named YYYYMM.csv. When debug logging is enabled, a parallel debug_YYYYMM.csv collects the Debug-severity stream. The column layout (Timestamp;Epoch_msecs;Code;Message) and the severity codes are described on Application Log.

The log/crashes/ subdirectory holds diagnostic reports written when Blackchirp terminates unexpectedly; see Crash Reports.

textexports/

This folder is the default location for the XY export files produced by the Export XY plot action (see Curve Configuration Options). Each export is a standalone text file whose column delimiter is chosen beside the Export XY button — semicolon, comma, tab, or aligned whitespace. Nothing in this folder is read back by Blackchirp.