config-override

Hi all — just a general question about this file. I am troubleshooting a new unit that uses the Smoothieboard 5X. So far I am very impressed at the capabilities of this board, and I am thrilled with the possibilities.

One thing I do not understand is the generation of the config-override file. I understand that this is not a user-editable file, and it is clear that the M501 command reads from this file to get EEPROM settings. My question is this — often this file seems to populate with ‘legacy’ settings. I will edit my config file and then reboot the board, only to have override config contain settings from 1-2 changes ago. In one instance I found it had given itself a steps/mm setting for one of the motors that I couldn’t find anywhere in the config file. Where do these values populate from?

My solution so far has been to delete config-override and reboot the board (sometimes more than once) but this can’t be the proper way to get currrent settings into the file. Advice?

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Hey.

Config-override “overrides” the “normal” config file. Meaning for example if you set your steps per mm in the override file, the values in the “config” file will be ignored.

There is no way to transfer values from one file to the other.

Cheers.

I have encountered a similar problem, and I am wondering if it is related to the Mac OSX file system. Are you using a Mac? (Mine is running OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks.)