My strange tale starts with finally getting around to upgrading to V8. In preparation I decided to run various reports of my existing V7 log so as to establish a baseline for comparison once the upgrade was complete. I noticed something wrong with my various totals. Upon inspecting the log file I found lots of QSO's missing and a 5 month gap in the log file. I back up the log file every couple of days and keep perhaps a month's worth of backup's before dumping the older files. I went through several backup files and each contained the same gap. I went back through several more backups and no gap - they were intact.
I can come up with no explanation for the gap. I could not have gone back to an old backup file by mistake and started logging from there because there were no backup files on the PC even close to a date that far back. Nor do I ever change my working log file. My radio PC runs 24/7 a UPS so the PC is never shutdown by a power interruption. About once a month I exit DX4Win, let the various Windows updates install and do a reboot. I then bring DX4Win back up and it automatically brings up my n2ss.dxl log file as that is what was running when I exited the program. Every couple of days I copy the then current n2ss.dxl file over to a different hard drive renaming the file to current_date.dxl. I was able to reconstitute my log file from the collection of backup files that I have, I still have no idea what caused the gap and the missing QSO's. But now when I do a back up of my log file I first run <Filter/Count> to get a QSO total, rename the backup to qso_total.dxl and verify that the new backup is a higher number than the previous one. I have been a DX4Win user for years, since V3 as I recall, and love the program. I have never encountered this situation before and probably never will again but I did want to share my revised back up procedure. Tony N2SS ______________________________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
