The user reporting on the 15th:

When I try to open updated REC file, I get the message "List index out of out of bounds (420)" - How can I solve this problem? Thank you.

We have seen the problem with earlier versions of EpiData Entry (v2.1), but as I remember not with 3.1. But I could be mistaken as I remember having seen it, but cannot reproduce the error with any data I have. A similar error was reported in February 2006, where the error was: In the chk file one of the fields had a wrong name.

The very subtle error message does not give you a clue to this, but please check if this could be the cause.

A good strategy is always to try to repeat the problem. What did you do since you could read the file last time. Then repeating the steps tells us where to look for a problem in the software and often also how to solve it.

But your description does not help a lot, since we should know : 1. What did you do btw. the last time it worked and until it did not ? 2. Which versions of EpiData (Entry or Analysis) wrote the file (saved).

If the file can be shown to others you can upload a small copy to the Mantis database, see the http://www.epidata.dk/testing.php with a description - but you must first register as a user there.

An easier alternative for the user is to send the file directly to me at info at epidata.dk and we will look at it very soon.

regards

Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association