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Issue Resolved:
After more testing I found I was able to pull images from conquest to another PC running KPacs just fine. However I was
never able to find any errors relating to why the original system was not able to pull images from Conquest.

What ended up fixing the problem was uninstalling KPACS completely, choosing to completely remove the local db, then reinstalling with the latest version. I did change the KPACS port numbers during this process.
Works fine now, thanks for all the help.

I attached some pics and log files. Everything looks sucessful to me.
However when examining the file kpstudy.dir , I don't see any difference after the transfer.

I'm going to try sending images to another machine running KPacs and see if they show up.
THanks for your help.

Sorry the last 3 lines of the pic are covered, they should read:

60, 1 Affected SOPInstanceUID
DIMSE sendDcmDataset : sending 154 bytes
DIMSE receiveCommand

We have a small medical clinic with a Kodak CR850 that sends images to a Conquest DB on the same LAN. The machine with the Conquest also is running KPacs for viewing the images.
I can only see the images that are in the KPacs imagebox. After 20 days they are purged from the imagebox by KPacs, BUT I should still be able to access the Conquest DB and import them back to KPacs to view older images. The problem is that the images come up black after importing from Conquest.

I have another post about this problem,
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images are blank on conquest db older than 20 days

I'm sure it's just a setting I'm not getting right. I would prefer to have a program that offers some support, like maybe
IQ/View ?? But I'm not sure where to find a provider.

Can anyone lead me in the right direction to find a consultant who would be willing
to help setup a simple Conquest/K-Pacs configuration on one machine.
I'm sure it could be done remotely with my help on this end.

I'm a little new to this and don't have the time to research it.

Thanks

I don't have a solution to this yet, but I'm sure it's something simple.
I attached a picture showing my setup. (see the file attachments to this post)

One strange thing I noticed is that when I send images from my CR850 to the Conquest (WALKER1), they automatically
showup in the KPacs imagebox without me doing anything. I'm not sure why that happens.

My problem still remains that once the images have left the KPacs imagebox (after 20 days), they can be querried from
the KPacs network tab (which querry's the conquest DB), and found, but when I open them they only pull up black images. It seems logical that Andreas's instruction to querry the Conquest DB using the KPacs "Network" tab instead of the filesystem tab would solve the problem because it would uncompress the image properly, but it doesn't seem to make any difference in my situation.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for the reply. However I am still getting the same results (black images).

I added the Conquest server (WALKER1 127.0.0.1 104), to the KPacs network tab. I can successfully querry patients,
but when I doubleclick to open the image is black. It shows the patient name, date.. with a Down Arrow, when I hit the down arrow it lists my conquest server, but still does nothing if I click that.

In Conquest I added the Kpacs (KPServer 127.0.0.1 105) to the known dicom providers list.
I konw the AE titles and ports are not the default values, but I have double checked that they are setup correct.

The job log in KPacs shows a successful retrieve. And the Conquest status tab looks like a successful send.

IN Conquest under the Configuration tab it shows "Images on disk are stored" "uncompressed"

I even tried the Querry/Move tab in conquest to move a image from WALKER1 to KPacs, Conquest said it was
successful, but I am unable to find the image in my local imagebox database tab from KPacs.

Please let me know if there is anything I should try to get this resolved.
Thanks

I have a question about viewing old images (ones that have left the K-Pacs imagebox) from a local Conquest db. Older images are showing a black screen.

I have Conquest and K-Pacs running on the same machine. My CR is sending images to Conquest (WALKER1 , 104) where
they are stored on a local Disk. K-Pacs (KPServer , 105) is able to view them by going to the filesytem tab and choosing the conquest db drive. I can bring up and view the images. At that point I can also view that same image by looking at the local image box tab in K-Pacs

I have K-Pacs overflow management set to a "max of 20 days on local". This is because K-Pacs is on the C: drive which
is very small. Conquest is on the F: drive which is 500GB. I don't want conquest to ever purge data. Cleanup nightly settings are both at 0MB in conquest.

My problem is that when I view the local imagebox I see the last 20 days of images, and when I view the
filesystem tab, which is the conquest DB on the F: drive, I see all the patients listed there, but only the last 20 days have images. The rest of them show a black screen with the patient name in the viewer.

It's probably something simple I"m missing, but I'm not very familiar with the software yet.
Do I need to import the images from Conquest back into the local image box? Or open them some other way.
Currently I'm just doubleclicking the patient name from the filesystem tab. It appears that my conquest db is continually
growing, however I only have images on the last 20 days worth of patients.

Thanks for any help.