Data Loss

Hello Guys

We are using ODK at our non-profit to help thousands of people and we are really happy with it. Unfortunately we lost some data inside the Identity Card field after we exported it from the server as CSV. We have deleted the data from the server and have no way of knowing if the data got lost during export or was originally corrupted.

Is there a way to recover the lost fields? I will appreciate the help.

Regards

If you have the original CSV, try opening it in a simple text editor (e.g.,
Notepad++) and seeing if the data is present.

Microsoft Excel is horribly bad at importing data from CSV files and will
often fail to read the files correctly if they contain non-latin
characters, commas or quotes inside data values.

Otherwise,

On the ODK Collect devices, sending a completed form to ODK Aggregate does
not delete that form; it remains under the odk directory on the SD card
until you delete it using 'Delete Saved Forms' (or delete the odk directory
on the SDCard). If you still have your ODK Collect devices, you can
re-submit these already-sent forms by going to the 'Send Finalized Form'
screen, choosing the Menu, Change View, 'Show Sent and Unsent Forms', and
then re-submitting your forms.

Once the data is deleted from ODK Aggregate, it is gone.

M
itch

ยทยทยท On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:52 AM, wrote:

Hello Guys

We are using ODK at our non-profit to help thousands of people and we are
really happy with it. Unfortunately we lost some data inside the Identity
Card field after we exported it from the server as CSV. We have deleted the
data from the server and have no way of knowing if the data got lost during
export or was originally corrupted.

Is there a way to recover the lost fields? I will appreciate the help.

Regards

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