Number of timestamps and neural samples not the same in particular file

[eackermann]

@jchutrue please post the code snippet below!

Context: one of the 7/10 .dat files (2200--2400) seems problematic. Using the default block size, I think it "worked", but created lots of small epochs (while using max_gap_size=300), which is unexpected for this file. When we used block_size=2**24, we got an error, saying that the number of expected channel data packets to pack was 0 (which implies an empty new_ts), but that approx 2 million samples were passed for packing.

What's going on?
Is jagular missing some special case? Is the data corrupt? Both?

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[eackermann]

filename = '/media/jchu/DataHDD/data/install/long-recording/untethered/07-11-2017/merged/install_07-11-2017_2200_0000_sd08.rec'
jfm = jag.io.JagularFileMap(filename)
jfm.timestamps

# just look at channel 0 for the ripples
start = time.time()

jag.utils.extract_channels(jfm=jfm,
                           max_gap_size=300,
                           ts_out = '/home/jchu/data/install/long-recording/three-day-analysis/temp/timestamps-test.raw',
                           ch_out_prefix='/home/jchu/data/install/long-recording/three-day-analysis/temp/test-',
                           subset=[0],
                           block_size=2**24,
                           verbose=False)
print("Took {} minutes to extract channel 0".format((time.time() - start)/60))

[eackermann]

update: this issue was related to datatype inconsistencies, particularly going from np.uint32 to np.int32. However, we have since migrated almost exclusively to np.int64, although there are still a few np.uint64s floating around, too.