OE004 Empty files

    Empty files #

    Problem ID Manufacturer Affected Firmware Affected Hardware Status
    OE004 Wildlife Acoustics, Frontier Labs (many) (many) Minor problem

    Related to WA001.

    Acoustic sensors regularly generate empty files - that is, files that are 0 bytes in size.

    This problem is distinct from small files, short files, or corrupt files.

    Empty files can be hard to associate with a manufacturer, because they have no internal metadata, hence why we have a catch all problem identifier.

    Effects of the problem on common tools #

    EMU #

    EMU can detect and rename these files enmasse. See https://github.com/QutEcoacoustics/emu/blob/master/docs/fixes.md#rename-empty-files-fix-oe004 for an example.