Joe Perez

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The INI file is attached to the project, as is the CurrentTune.MSQ, the restore points, etc.

You could have separate projects for multiple MS1s, MS2s and MS3s all set up at the same time under a single instance of TunerStudio.

viperormiata

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I'm torn between pulling my a/c or doing the necessary changes to make it r134.

miata2fast

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On the turbo car? If yes, I say absolutely get rid of it. Simplicity will make your life so much easier.

shuiend

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I was quoted about $300 to have my local miata shop switch my 92's AC to r134. I passed on it and just would put down side windows and unzip the rear window. The only time I really would have liked AC is when I was stuck in stop and go traffic on the interstate. As long as I was moving I was fine.

Braineack

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I probably have over 300 project folders.

what's wrong with just using r-12? Oh, another reason to slow your build?

shuiend

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You have to actually find it, then find a shop that is still willing to fill your car with it. Neither are easy to do, I tried that route myself.

Braineack

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oh, that hasn't even been an issue for me here. Trong will always do it for me, just did in October. I'm all full on freon.

y8s

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I use(d) tunerstudio and MLV on two different computers for the SAME ECU.

I used dropbox to store the configuration files so that my tuning experience was identical and synchronized between machines. The beauty of this was that I could store preferences files in dropbox (along with maps/logs) and I created a symbolic link in the original TS/MLV install directories to point to the preferences on dropbox.

You are jellybones of my skillz.

shuiend

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Was it actually r12 or the stuff that claims it is compatible with r12? I have found plenty of people who sell "r12" and it is really just the stuff that is compatible. That stuff will slowly eat away o-rings and you will have leaks again.

Braineack

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its real freon.

Joe Perez

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Ah, so I'm not the only one who has discovered this trick.

I use Dropbox a lot for work, and when I did the MS3 build, I decided to use it to sync a single TunerStudioProjects folder between three machines (laptop, main work PC, main home PC). It's quite nice, as I can drive somewhere while logging, and then pick up my laptop and carry it inside, and before I've even got my coffee, the log file is ready and waiting on my other PCs. Ditto making changes to the state of tune- you can use the "big" PCs to change something in TS, and then it's automatically sitting on the laptop ready to go into the car.

One word of caution: If you run TS on the laptop, put it to sleep while it's outside of wifi coverage, and then run TS on another machine, you will wind up with conflicted files. DropBox has a clean way of dealing with this (it creates two copies and marks them appropriately) but it's something you have to be aware of. CurrentTune.MSQ in particular is easily afflicted.

y8s

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since I save a new msq pretty much every time I start doing anything, it's not usually an issue. I'm also pretty good about shutting down programs I'm not using to avoid "CurrentTune (UNIVAC's conflicted copy 2013-03-21).msq" issues. But even in spite of that, I always have a few current tunes like that.

by the way, if you haven't done it already, you really should re-map the graphs and colors in MLV. it makes it MUCH easier to see data.

just pop this in your MegaLogViewer.properties:

hustler

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I just biked 12 miles and I'm crushed, lol. This is going to be a long, hard road.

FRT_Fun

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I haven't been on enough to know why you are biking, but I have been biking to the gym which is about 5 miles each way for the past two months. The first week was killer. It feels fking great though. And now it's not bad at all.

When I start school this summer I'll be biking there too. It's the same distance since I work out at the school. The 110 degree days are going to suck. A lot.

hustler

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I'd bike to the gym, but let's just say I just peddled those 12 miles and was yelled at by 50% of the cars who passed and one dude tried to hit me with the mirror of his truck.

I tried to do the elliptical for years but it doesn't motivate nor push me. I had to end the stationary bike because it makes my right knee burn in pain; the osteopath said the x-ray and MRI show nothing negative.

I'm 32, the metabolism is slowing and I want to stay fit...doing zero cardio is not the path to a long, healthy life so I picked-up that bike above for $300 and started riding. It's something that can motivate me (I really want to go home at the half way point), it's almost fun, and you get to see something other than the inside of a gym while doing it. It's also been fairly inexpensive up to this point. I plan to get a baller bike (sub $1k) later this summer if the hobby sticks as motivation.

Joe Perez

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Your machine's name is UNIVAC?



Like I said, the only time this usually happens to me is when I do something like drive home with the Laptop connected but put the laptop into sleep mode before it's had a chance to sync to the home network. Then, I open TunerStudio on my desktop, and this creates a conflict. (Both machines now have a "new" version of CurrentTune.MSQ)

It's not a big deal, just something to watch out for.

Aside from that, DropBox rocks my world. I have wanted something like this since I first started using a laptop 13 years ago, and found myself having to be sure to manually sync files between it and my desktop PC. Now, I keep whatever projects I am working on (business projects) in a dropbox folder that's synced to all five of the PCs which I regularly use.

Beyond the obvious syncing features, the fact that DropBox stores several revisions-deep of each file has saved my *** on numerous occasions. Let's say you accidentally save over an important file. Under normal conditions, you're fucked. At best, you can go back to the most recent backup you have which, for me, could be up to 24 hours old.

With DropBox, you can revert back to previous versions of any file. So you can say "I want the version of this file that existed before I saved over it at 2:30pm today" and you've got it.

So it's like Apple's Time Machine, only better. Rather than backups being time-based (eg, hourly) it's revision based. You could save a single file thirty times in an hour, and decide "Oops, I want to go back to the seventeenth version of that file", and you got it.


For everyone else:

TL;DR: Get Dropbox. It's cool.

thenuge26

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I'm too cool for dropbox. I'm setting up Git to handle my MS files.

Actually that's not a bad idea, I need to learn Git anyway.

y8s

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have you already got all the free additional space you can without harassing people?

You can go through their "Free" page and do all that.
You can also turn on camera upload and take a few minutes of video and let it bump up your space and then delete the video.

n00bs:
Here's a link to sign up and get me and you free space if you don't have Dropbox. Please use my link so I get moar space.

http://db.tt/SzUCs8r

shuiend

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Git would actually be a horrible way to handle MS files. With dropbox everything is automatically synced. With Git you would have to push when you are done tuning on one machine and then pull from the other machine to get the files.

Learning Git though is not a bad idea.

Joe Perez

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I haven't maxxed it out, but I'm up to something like 5 or 6 gigs total with only about 3 used. It's easy to do yourself- just create a virtual machine and a disposable email address and invite yourself. Rinse & repeat.

I never realized this was an option. It dynamically expands as you upload video, and then doesn't shrink again afterwards?