diff --git a/preProcessing/acqID.m b/preProcessing/acqID.m
index 3ff8d89..f6beb7c 100644
--- a/preProcessing/acqID.m
+++ b/preProcessing/acqID.m
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@
         if contains(checkPath, ignoreFolders(f))
             usePath = false;
         end
+        if contains(checkPath, ".memory_usage")
+            usePath = false; %check for new memory usage dat file and ignore automatically
+        end
     end
     if usePath
         datpaths{i} = checkPath;
@@ -82,11 +85,19 @@
             expNum(i) = '1';
             recNum(i) = '1';
         else
-            recordingnames{i} = relParts{1};
-            expIdx = find(startsWith(relParts, 'experiment'), 1);
-            recIdx = find(startsWith(relParts, 'recording'), 1);
-            expNum(i) = ternary(~isempty(expIdx), extractAfter(relParts{expIdx}, 'experiment'), '1');
-            recNum(i) = ternary(~isempty(recIdx), extractAfter(relParts{recIdx}, 'recording'), '1');
+            recordingnames{i} = parts{1};
+            expIdx = find(startsWith(relPath, 'experiment'), 1);
+            recIdx = find(startsWith(relPath, 'recording'), 1);
+            if ~isempty(expIdx)
+                expNum(i) = extractAfter(relParts(expIdx), 'experiment');
+            else
+                expNum(i) = '1';
+            end
+            if ~isempty(expIdx)
+                recNum(i) = extractAfter(relParts(recIdx), 'recording');
+            else
+                recNum(i) = '1';
+            end
         end
     else
         fprintf('.dat file found nested in a folder labeled %s . Skipping: \n', ignoreFolders(f));
diff --git a/preProcessing/concatenateDats.m b/preProcessing/concatenateDats.m
index 9da9198..54b0295 100755
--- a/preProcessing/concatenateDats.m
+++ b/preProcessing/concatenateDats.m
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ function concatenateDats(varargin)
     end
     for ii = 1:length(toFill)
         if toFill(ii) == 1
-            fillMissingDats('basepath', basepath, 'fileType', otherdattypes{ii});
+            fillMissingDats('basepath', basepath, 'fileType', otherdattypes{ii},'ignoreFolders',ignoreFolders);
         end
     end
 else
diff --git a/preProcessing/fillMissingDats.m b/preProcessing/fillMissingDats.m
index c47b0ea..9758c3c 100644
--- a/preProcessing/fillMissingDats.m
+++ b/preProcessing/fillMissingDats.m
@@ -33,10 +33,16 @@ function fillMissingDats(varargin)
 isFileType = @(x) sum(strcmp(x, otherdattypes)) == 1;
 addParameter(p, 'basepath', pwd, @isfolder)
 addParameter(p, 'fileType', [], isFileType)
+addParameter(p, 'ignoreFolders', "", @isstring);
 
 parse(p, varargin{:})
 basepath = p.Results.basepath;
 fileType = p.Results.fileType;
+ignoreFolders = p.Results.ignoreFolders;
+
+if ignoreFolders == ""
+    ignoreFolders = [];
+end
 
 % get file types and data types
 files_table = table();
@@ -53,6 +59,20 @@ function fillMissingDats(varargin)
 contFiles = dir([basepath, filesep, '**', filesep, 'continuous.dat']); %check for openEphys
 ampFiles = cat(1, ampFiles, contFiles);
 typeFolders = {typeFiles.folder};
+
+useAmpFiles = [];
+for a = 1:length(ampFiles)
+    skip = 0;
+    for f = 1:length(ignoreFolders)
+        if (contains(ampFiles(a).folder, ignoreFolders(f)) || contains(ampFiles(a).folder, ".memory_usage"))
+            skip = 1;
+        end
+    end
+    if skip~=1
+        useAmpFiles = cat(1, useAmpFiles, ampFiles(a));
+    end
+end
+ampFiles = useAmpFiles;
 ampFolders = {ampFiles.folder};
 
 fillInds = find(~ismember(ampFolders, typeFolders)); %index of folders that need fill
@@ -68,7 +88,7 @@ function fillMissingDats(varargin)
 for ii = 1:length(fillInds)
     fillIdx = fillInds(ii);
     localAmpSize = ampFiles(fillIdx).bytes;
-    nPoints = localAmpSize / (ampNch * 2);
+    nPoints = double(localAmpSize / (ampNch * 2));
 
     zeroData = zeros(typeNch, nPoints);