A long time ago I did a SAVE AS and changed the destination from the SAVE folder to a thumb drive as a form of backup. I made some new QSO's and saved and closed DX4WIN and removed the thumb drive. Next time I opened DX4WIN it told me it couldn't find my DXL file as it expected to find the thumb drive. I opened the SAVE window/folder and selected the DXL file found there. When DX4WIN opened I noticed my most recent QSO's were missing. Then I realized they had been saved in the thumb drive the last time I closed DX4WIN. I copied the more recent DXL file in the thumb drive to the SAVE file/folder and overwrote the older DXL. When I reopened DX4WIN all was FB. So if you save your log DXL file somewhere else other than the SAVE folder as a means of backup you may be creating a problem next time you open DX4WIN.
>From that lesson I now do the following when I want to copy/save my DXL file in another place for example a thumb drive. I go to FILE and select SAVE AS (not SAVE). This opens the SAVE AS window. I find my DXL file (or any other I want to copy/backup). I right click the DXL file and on the drop down menu select SEND TO>. I can then select any other drive, etc, to send the file to, in my case mostly a thumb drive. As another means of safely back up I use my PC SD slot. I leave a SD card in the PC SD slot all the time except when I might transfer photos from my camera. I went to FILE/PREFERENCE/QSO. In that window there is a small window SECONDARY BACK UP DEVICE. In that little window I put the location of my SD card, in my case it is named drive G: So now my back up info is stored on the SD card. Just wondering if anyone finds any fault in using a SD card in this manner. My PC SD slot is not used 99 per cent of the time. Why not put my DX4WIN back up files on it? 73 & HNY Alan K7ACZ -----Original Message----- From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David Kozinn, K2DBK Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 8:31 AM To: Joe; DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs Any chance you might have written to a log that's not in your "save" folder? On 12/20/2015 7:53 AM, Joe wrote: > I have a strange problem. > > > > I transferred my RAC Winter contest QSO's (made on December 19) from > N1MM Logger this morning and that went fine. But when I looked at the > logbook in DX4WIN 8.05, I noticed that all the QSOs I had logged > between December 12 and December 18 were missing. These included > contacts from the 10M contest last weekend and a bunch of **90IARU > stations. I can recreate these from other sources, but I'm pretty > active and I'm probably missing several dozen other QSOs. > > > > I tried arranging all the logs in the "save" folder in chronological > order to see if I might have entered the missing QSOs in another log > file, but there is nothing with a time stamp during the period from > 12/12 through today other than the main file, its backup, and the RAC contest file. > > > > I also looked in N1MM logger to see if I might have mistakenly > entered the QSOs there, but I didn't. > > > > I've tried a global search for some callsigns I remember working > during that period with no luck. > > > > I worked a PA3 earlier this morning and his QSO is also missing. > > > > My last external backup was in November, so it's of no help here. > > > > I'm running version 8.05 on a Samsung laptop with Windows 7. > > > > Any ideas would be welcome. > > > > Tnx es 73, Joe K1JB > > ______________________________________________________________ > DX4WIN mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- 73, David, K2DBK http://k2dbk.blogspot.com http://k2dbk.com twitter: @k2dbk ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
