I received my NanoVNA V2+4 a few weeks ago.  I am trying to locate the .s1p file that I exported containing the data from an antenna measurement.  Weird thing is that I cannot find it in C:\Program Files (x86)\vna_qt_windows\release using File Explorer.  However, if I try to save it again, I see the file in the Export (s1p) pull down, in the same C:\Program Files (x86)\vna_qt_windows\release directory. I have refreshed, closed and re-opened File Explorer yet the .s1p is not visible (hidden files turned on).  Further, same thing with a .cal file I created today; cannot find it searching in C:\Program Files (x86)\vna_qt_windows\release with File Explorer, but I can see it if I try to save the cal info again.  I do see a previous .cal file I save a few days while using File Explorer.  Downright odd!

TIA for reading!
Matt W5MT

On 20/08/2022 22:12, Matt Thomas W5MT via groups.io wrote:
> I received my NanoVNA V2+4 a few weeks ago.  I am trying to locate the .s1p
> file that I exported containing the data from an antenna measurement.  Weird
> thing is that I cannot find it in C:\Program Files (x86)\vna_qt_windows\release
> using File Explorer.  However, if I try to save it again, I see the file in the
> Export (s1p) pull down, in the same C:\Program Files
> (x86)\vna_qt_windows\release directory. I have refreshed, closed and re-opened
> File Explorer yet the .s1p is not visible (hidden files turned on).  Further,
> same thing with a .cal file I created today; cannot find it searching
> in C:\Program Files (x86)\vna_qt_windows\release with File Explorer, but I can
> see it if I try to save the cal info again.  I do see a previous .cal file I
> save a few days while using File Explorer.  Downright odd!
>
> TIA for reading!
> Matt W5MT

Matt,

These days, standard users can#t write inside the C:\Program Files...
directories. Try saving somewhere else. Many amateur radio programs need to
write in their installed directory, so for that reason I create a directory:

C:\Tools\

and use that for the program which need to write where they are installed.

The oddity you are seeing is that Windows can emulate/fake the C:\Program
Files... directory elsewhere on the PC for such writing, creating confusion
such as you have seen. Probably somewhere in C:\Users\... but I forget the
exact details now.

73,
David GM8ARV
--
SatSignal Software - Quality software for you
Web: https://www.satsignal.eu
Email: david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk
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Thank you David; very interesting to know that.

I may look around in the Users directory (next time I'm on the other computer) and see if I can find anything.  I bet it's hidden in one of those directories whose name is one of those 26-character long mixed bag of alpha and numeric characters... LOL.

Thanks again!
73
Matt
W5MT

I use a free search program Agent Ransack in place of the window search engine. It's faster and looks at all the hidden files in ALL the directories.
Have a look at it.

Randolph C Koehler
KI4EZU AE VE 
ARRL
EWA DISTRICT 8 EMERGENCY COORDINATOR
KI4EZU@YAHOO.COM
360-633-0708    

On Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 09:05:29 AM PDT, Matt Thomas W5MT via groups.io <w5mt=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:

Thank you David; very interesting to know that.

I may look around in the Users directory (next time I'm on the other computer) and see if I can find anything.  I bet it's hidden in one of those directories whose name is one of those 26-character long mixed bag of alpha and numeric characters... LOL.

Thanks again!
73
Matt
W5MT