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lakeside	lakeside posted 8 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 34, Visits: 121	I am having issues downloading and decrypting data files created using the /encrypt = true("test") attribute. Interestingly, the manual states "Encrypted data files are saved with the "inq" extension" but my files are coming down with an "iqdatc" extension. Here's a log snippet: 2016-04-08T13:27:22.381 InquisitLab 4.0.9.0 2658 System Platform='Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64' MemAvail=27062380 MemTotal=33497548 CPUSpeed=3392 TimerResolution=0.0003018450581021552 IPAddress=xx MacAddress=xx 2016-04-08T13:27:24.016 InquisitLab 4.0.9.0 2658 ExecutionError Failed to read 'C:/Users/me/AppData/Local/Temp/ModIGTwave2v1enc_410443834_16-04-08-05-24-52-857.iqdatc'. The password is incorrect. 2016-04-08T13:27:24.016 InquisitLab 4.0.9.0 2658 ExecutionError Failed to read 'C:/Users/me/AppData/Local/Temp/ModIGTwave2v1enc_410443834_16-04-08-05-24-52-857.iqdatc'. The password is incorrect. I am also uploading the script. Attachments ModIGT_wave2_v1_enc.iqx (780 views, 37.00 KB) Tags Decrypt Encrypt passowrd
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Dave	Dave posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 12K, Visits: 98K	You are correct: The "Gathering Data Over the Web" topic mistakenly refers to encrypted data files having and .inq extension and plain-text files having a .dat extension. Those used to be the extensions up to and including Inquisit version 3. Under Inquisit 4 and above the respective file extensions are .iqdatc and .iqdat, respectively. (The language reference for the /encrypt attribute has this correct: "Encrypted files are saved with the "*.iqdatc" file extension, and plain text files are saved with the ".iqdat" file extension.") As for the decryption failure: This is definitely a nasty bug. Thank you for pointing it out.
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