[chirp_users] Exporting D72 memories never finishes

[Dan Smith]

> Ah. I sat there waiting while it downloaded all 1000 channels because I 
> didn't realize I could edit as it was working on that. I can see the 
> benefit of having the radio verify each entry as it's being written but 
> I don't like the idea that every modification is immediately written to 
> the radio. I would prefer consistent behavior for each supported radio 
> wherever possible, that of a document rather than a database approach. 
> Just my preference of course. The desire to use channel checking by the 
> D72 is not mutually exclusive with this approach. The changed channel 
> would simply be queued and written when 'save' is selected.

Some other folks prefer the opposite, of course. It takes several
minutes to download my ID880 (for example). It's image-based, which
means the minimum time to do a download, add a channel, and upload the
result is probably seven minutes. If I get distracted in the middle
(which I always do), it's more like thirty minutes. With one of my live
radios (like your D72) I can make a change like that in less than sixty
seconds.

If you prefer the image-based approach, download the entire radio,
export to CSV and make your edits there. You can then make a bunch of
changes to that and only push the result to your radio when you're done.

-- 
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS

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