My first advice to you until you get your computer to work is to print out a copy of your log on paper. Right click the log and print and you will have a permanent copy. Do the same thing each day by searching on the present day or the day before or the week before if you do not make a lot of contacts, right click and you can print the last days log. Save a copy of your log and .cty file each day on a floppy disk and rotate them.
Copy your log each day to either a cd rom along with the .cty file. This will give you a permanent copy of your log and save each day under a new date on the directory on the cdrom. Save your log regularly with the save command. If you have a crash, save that log with the present date followed by a letter suffix. As soon as you save it, compare it with your log. One of them will contain the latest contacts. Until you get to where you are comfortable with DX4WIN and your computer, you may also want to save a copy of the backup file just in case you make a mistake. To find the backup log, simply do an open for the name of the file you just saved. It would normally be in the SAVE directory under DX4WIN. It is important that you check each of the 13 files, particularly the last day or so of contacts. I use the FILTER/COUNT to get a qso count, but you can do the same thing by looking at the FILE/INFO for each of the saved logs. Since you did not correct the logs when you had the problem, you will need to print out the last page of each file and then compare that with your regular log. If you find a qso that is not in the log, select QSO/ADD OFF LINE. After you do this, your log will be up to date and it is easy to keep it that way. What kind of computer and operating system are you running to have that much trouble? DX4WIN is solid as a rock. I am running Windows 2000 Professional on a home build Athlon machine. There is NO need to buy any other software to ensure that your log is always saved. All programs that do an incremental (packet) save to a CD ROM are not as reliable as saving your log on a floppy disk as they do not build a catalog of the disk contents until you close out the disk. A single scratch can cause you to lose months of data on a CDR that is packet written and they are sometimes destroyed by a power failure while the packet disk is in the disk drive. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:15 AM To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Dx4win] Backup logs Unfortunately, my computer now and then just resets itself for no discernible reason. So, when I turn it back on DX4WIN prompts me to save the unsaved QSOs to a different backup file, which now number 13. How do I find those and get them into the log? The answer is probably in the instruction book, which I have, but I can't find it. As you have discerned, I'm not very computer literate. And if I'm reading this reflector correctly, I find it depressing that I have to buy yet another program in order to back up DX4WIN to a CD/RW. Thanks for the help. 73, Dave Bell, W6AQ --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. Please post in Plain-Text only.--- _______________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Dx4win@mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
