Chat GPT answer had me make a change that caused “pre collision system unavailable”

[RickLightning]

As someone that has never made a mistake like this (well, never use AI but the idea of doing something stupid), you have my sympathy. Of course I lie, countless issues with computers over the 40+ years I've had them. Most recent was ignoring Windows warning I was running out of space, then it tried an update, and I was hosed. Unrecoverable except with a reformat.

Love the chart above.

A good example of why you backup every module before making any FORScan changes too. I also save the As Built file from Ford to review if necessary.

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[chl]

As someone that has never made a mistake like this (well, never use AI but the idea of doing something stupid), you have my sympathy. Of course I lie, countless issues with computers over the 40+ years I've had them. Most recent was ignoring Windows warning I was running out of space, then it tried an update, and I was hosed. Unrecoverable except with a reformat.

Love the chart above.

A good example of why you backup every module before making any FORScan changes too. I also save the As Built file from Ford to review if necessary.

Amen.

If I had a dollar for every hour spent fighting with Windows, I'd be the billionaire (almost).

I've always been cherry about backing up data (and saving my work very often during writing things) so never lost anything important, but I have had windows updates brick machines - why I said thanks but no thanks to Win 10 when it first came out...also why I make at least weekly System Images of my operating systems.

I guess my truck OS has not been backed up, by me anyway, fingers crossed.

But I do watch out for posts talking about OTA updates that caused truck trouble and immediately turn off automatic updating for a spell.

So far so good.

 

[rugedraw]

Why I don't mess with a truck that gets me from point A to point B and back again...

Yea, those guys are morons.

 

[FloridaMan655321]

"AI' lololol
You thought there was some actual intelligence going on? Let the intelligence get you out of the problem

 

[electricpig]

ha, happy to help

Here's a good one.

"Good stories come from bad decisions!"

 

[Maineiac12]

Let this be a lesson to everyone. Stop trusting these “AI” answers you see on the internet.

 

[chl]

Let this be a lesson to everyone. Stop trusting these “AI” answers you see on the internet.

Or from many "humans" either!

 

[tls]

I wish Forscan had a "back up every module" button. Have never understood why it doesn't.

 

[chl]

I wish Forscan had a "back up every module" button. Have never understood why it doesn't.

I thought backing things up was the first step everyone recommends when using it.
I guess doing that is not as easy as hitting "back up" on a menu.

We all probably have horror stories about losing things when we didn't back them up and a system crashed or something bad happened. I know I do.

 

[tls]

I thought backing things up was the first step everyone recommends when using it.
I guess doing that is not as easy as hitting "back up" on a menu.

We all probably have horror stories about losing things when we didn't back them up and a system crashed or something bad happened. I know I do.

Should I back up every module before making any change with Forscan, ever? Hell yes. But do I? No, because it takes a minute or so per module and there are like 40 modules. I have a "golden" backup from before I ever changed anything, and then I back up only the modules I'm changing.

This is not great practice and a single button "back up all" would sure help me get it right. Now, whether such a backup could ever be restored, across OTA updates and FDRS updates, etc -- I have my doubts. But I'd feel better if I had one, and the tool could definitely make it less timeconsuming each time I do make one (I think I've made about 3 in the 2 years I've been on the FDRS+Forscan path with this truck, plus the per-module ones every time I change anything in Forscan).

 

[bmwhitetx]

I wish Forscan had a "back up every module" button. Have never understood why it doesn't.

I agree. But typically you are only changing a module or two - so those are the ones that need backups. So I just get in the habit when I open a module for programming is to first go to the bottom and click Save All. It's nice that it saves the file with the module name and timestamp. I also do another Save All after programming. You can then use this program to compare the two files to confirm the correct changes were made.

If you want a fast way to backup all the modules, go to this site and download the file for your VIN. I
have a calendar reminder to do this once a month:
https://www.motorcraftservice.com/AsBuilt

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