diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index c80191741..6e21a38e4 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -2,10 +2,7 @@
 
 - Part 2:
 
-  - Fix bug in determining the number of files to be included in the part 2 report. 
-  It may affect the part 2 csv report which may have had less recordings than expected 
-  even though the missing recordings are just processed and visible in the output of 
-  subsequent parts. #1252
+  - Fix bug in determining the files to be included in the part 2 report, which only considered the first N files processed by part 2 while using this N when working a file name list produced by part 1 which can be longer #1252
 
   - Speed up activity diary extraction. #1250
 
@@ -17,7 +14,7 @@
   boutcriter.mvpa). #1247
 
 - Part 2 and 4: Both activity diary and sleep diary are now always reloaded if the derived 
-copy of it (in .RData) is older than the diary itself. #1250
+copy of it (in .RData) is older than the diary itself or if the diary name has changed. #1250
 
 - Visual report: Recently added visual report is now also able to handle epoch sizes not equal 
 to 1 minutes, and now also able to handle recordings 
diff --git a/R/g.part2.R b/R/g.part2.R
index 31736b036..91587b9fe 100644
--- a/R/g.part2.R
+++ b/R/g.part2.R
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ g.part2 = function(datadir = c(), metadatadir = c(), f0 = c(), f1 = c(),
       # note that this filtering is only use if parameter nonwearFiltermaxHours is specified.
       use_qwindow_as_diary = FALSE 
     }
-    tmp_activityDiary_file = paste0(metadatadir, "/meta/activityDiary.RData")
+    tmp_activityDiary_file = paste0(metadatadir, "/meta/activityDiary_", basename(params_247[["qwindow"]]), ".RData")
     
     if (!file.exists(tmp_activityDiary_file) || (file.exists(tmp_activityDiary_file) && 
         file.info(params_247[["qwindow"]])$mtime >= file.info(tmp_activityDiary_file)$mtime)) {
diff --git a/R/g.part4.R b/R/g.part4.R
index 443c0b43f..74cdf3b97 100644
--- a/R/g.part4.R
+++ b/R/g.part4.R
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ g.part4 = function(datadir = c(), metadatadir = c(), f0 = f0, f1 = f1,
     dolog = FALSE
   }
   if (dolog == TRUE) {
-    sleeplogRDataFile = paste0(metadatadir,"/meta/sleeplog.RData")
+    sleeplogRDataFile = paste0(metadatadir,"/meta/sleeplog_", basename(params_sleep[["loglocation"]]), ".RData")
     # only re-process sleeplog if sleeplog.RData does not exist or if sleeplog
     # is from a date equal to or after sleeplog.RData
     if (!file.exists(sleeplogRDataFile) || 
diff --git a/R/g.part5.R b/R/g.part5.R
index 648df9e9a..9f73ba3bb 100644
--- a/R/g.part5.R
+++ b/R/g.part5.R
@@ -64,7 +64,12 @@ g.part5 = function(datadir = c(), metadatadir = c(), f0=c(), f1=c(),
   
   fnames.ms5 = dir(paste(metadatadir, "/meta/ms5.out", sep = ""))
   # path to sleeplog milestonedata, if it exists:
-  sleeplogRDA = paste(metadatadir, "/meta/sleeplog.RData", sep = "")
+  
+  if (length(params_sleep[["loglocation"]]) > 0) {
+    sleeplogRDA = paste0(metadatadir,"/meta/sleeplog_", basename(params_sleep[["loglocation"]]), ".RData")
+  } else {
+    sleeplogRDA = paste(metadatadir, "/meta/sleeplog.RData", sep = "")
+  }
   if (file.exists(sleeplogRDA) == TRUE) {
     sleeplog = logs_diaries = c()
     load(sleeplogRDA)