LoadMasterFile: MLF file header is missing

[James F]

When trying to run HResults with multiple speakers I get the error

ERROR [+6551] LoadMasterFile: MLF file header is missing

There is nothing online about this issue.
Any help would be appreciated

[Simon]

Time to develop your debugging skills…

Two possibilities to get you started

1. you are not correctly loading multiple MLFs – post your full command line here and I’ll check it

2. there is a formatting error in one of the MLFs – how might you efficiently figure out which one that is? More generally, how might you sanity check an individual users data, before deciding to include it in one of your experiments?

Tip: add this command in a shell script to make the shell to print out each command, with the variables all replaced by their actual values, just before executing it – this can be helpful in debugging:

set -x

You can turn that behaviour off again with

set +x

So to debug just part of a shell script, wrap it like this:

... script does stuff here
set -x
HResults ....
set +x
..... script continues here

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