HyTek says "Results file for event not found" or my results aren't reaching the meet software. What's wrong?
Both programs must use the same shared folder, and the event must be opened from Load Schedule, not File | New. A blank event saves a .lif with no event number, which Meet Manager can't match.
FinishLynx and HyTek communicate through a shared folder: HyTek writes start lists to it and FinishLynx reads from and writes results back to the same folder. Check these in order:
- In HyTek, go to Interfaces | Photo Finish - FinishLynx File Sharing Mode | Update Start Lists, and note the folder next to Shared Location for FinishLynx Data.
- In FinishLynx, File | Options | Database: the Input Directory and Output Directory must both be that same folder. Many computers have more than one tfmeets folder, and pointing at the wrong one is the most common cause.
- Open each event from File | Goto Event and Load Schedule, not from a blank File | New. A blank event saves a .lif named only by a timestamp, with no event number, and Meet Manager then reports "Results file for event #, heat 1 not found" even though a .lif is in the folder.
- Save the event in FinishLynx, then in Meet Manager go to Run, select the event and heat, and click Get Times (F3). If you corrected the race afterwards, save it again and click Get Times again.
If Get Times brings results in tenths instead of thousandths, see Get Times gives tenths. How do I get thousandths? Settings inside Meet Manager itself are HyTek's software, so for those questions contact HyTek.
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Related questions
- Why aren't the athlete names loading into FinishLynx events? — FinishLynx isn't reading the folder your meet software writes to. Point the Input and Output Directory in File | Options | Database at the competition folder, then load the event again.
- FinishLynx saves the race but no .lif results file appears. Why? — The .lif is written to the Output Directory in File | Options | Database when the event is saved. If it's missing, that folder is wrong, read-only or on a computer FinishLynx lost contact with (error 3002).
- Get Times gives tenths in my meet software. How do I get thousandths? — Set File | Options | Database | Time Precision to Thousandths, save the event again and get the times again. A race with a manual start is limited to tenths.
- What are lynx.evt, lynx.ppl and lynx.sch, and where do they go? — The files every meet program exchanges with FinishLynx through one shared folder: lynx.evt is the seeded events (the only one required), lynx.ppl the athletes, lynx.sch the event order. FinishLynx writes a .lif back.