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size of the e-mail including any attached audio files.
The
Date
column includes the date and time that Alerts were sent. These entries are
clickable: if you click an underlined date and time, PDM will display more details on the
event, including links to the OnAir and OffAir audio dump files.
If PDM can’t send e-mail because of a network or setup error, it will display a message
about the problem.
Log File Lock Box
Files generated by the PD-Alert system can be copied to your computer, and
from there can be saved, forwarded or deleted like any other computer file.
Dump files in PDM’s internal storage
cannot
be edited or deleted manually.
That’s for security. There is no command to do this either in the GUI or on
PDM’s front panel.
• Dumped files “stick around” as long as possible, until PDM’s internal storage
gets full. Then older ones are erased to make room for newer ones. PDM’s inter-
nal storage holds
lots
of Dump files (about 700 MB).
• If your station’s policy is to flush airchecks after a specific time, select a
shorter period in the
Retain dump files
field (page 40).
Until a file has been deleted by the system for either of these reasons, it stays in
the system and is available for review. Of course, you should also back up impor-
tant ones elsewhere, by copying them to a separate system or permanent media.
That’s just good computing practice.
Dump Archive page
Clicking on the
DUMP ARCHIVE
tab displays a list of all the Dump files stored within
PDM, with the most recent ones on top. Files are built in pairs, one for the studio or
telephone audio that got deleted (
OffAir
) and one for what listeners actually heard
(
OnAir
). Regardless of any compression settings on the PD-Alert page, these files are al-
ways stored within PDM as uncompressed full-resolution .wav.
If you click on any
File name
, PDM will play its audio through your browser. You can
also transfer these files to your computer by right-clicking (Windows) or control-
clicking (Mac) on the file name, and using your browser’s “Save Linked File” command.
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