[Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem
Hi everyone, I went to open my log v8.02 this morning to find that I had lost three days of QSO's even though I have used and backed up the log daily. Not only that, the first 4000+ entires in my log had no information other than X's in all logbook fields! The demo log included with v8.02 had several days worth of my latest contacts in it even though I have never opened it or saved to. I only have the two logs in the 'Save' folder.my main station log and the demo log. This may be a 'glitch' on my part but as I have not edited or played around with the logs or had a computer crash I have no idea why it happened. I eventually found a '~xl' back up file which fortunately had the missing information in it!!! It may be worth you keeping an eye on your logs and saving your 'log file' on a regular basis 'just in case' there is a problem. 73, Carl GW0VSW __ 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
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem
A couple of questions before venturing an opinion... Which OS... and which File System if you know. When you say you will save your file... are you running it for days on end without doing a File Save or Cntl-S. The reason I ask this is if you have a scheduled backup running it will back up the file as it stood last time you did a File Save. If is important that anyone doing a scheduled backup save the file to disk periodically. Carl Mason wrote: Hi everyone, I went to open my log v8.02 this morning to find that I had lost three days of QSO's even though I have used and backed up the log daily. Not only that, the first 4000+ entires in my log had no information other than X's in all logbook fields! The demo log included with v8.02 had several days worth of my latest contacts in it even though I have never opened it or saved to. I only have the two logs in the 'Save' folder.my main station log and the demo log. This may be a 'glitch' on my part but as I have not edited or played around with the logs or had a computer crash I have no idea why it happened. I eventually found a '~xl' back up file which fortunately had the missing information in it!!! It may be worth you keeping an eye on your logs and saving your 'log file' on a regular basis 'just in case' there is a problem. 73, Carl GW0VSW __ 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
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem
Hi Mel, I run XP Pro. When I leave the programme it says I have updated the logbook and do I want to save it. I always say 'yes' and up to now have not had a problem. I also back up the log to a memory stick, usually once a week. Over the past three days I have opened the programme several times and each time my last entry was in the logbook. This morning when the log opened I had the problem. Cheers, Carl From: Mel ve...@videotron.ca To: Carl Mason gw0...@btinternet.com Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, 19 November, 2009 14:58:50 Subject: A couple of questions before venturing an opinion... Which OS... and which File System if you know. When you say you will save your file... are you running it for days on end without doing a File Save or Cntl-S. The reason I ask this is if you have a scheduled backup running it will back up the file as it stood last time you did a File Save. If is important that anyone doing a scheduled backup save the file to disk periodically. Carl Mason wrote: Hi everyone, I went to open my log v8.02 this morning to find that I had lost three days of QSO's even though I have used and backed up the log daily. Not only that, the first 4000+ entires in my log had no information other than X's in all logbook fields! The demo log included with v8.02 had several days worth of my latest contacts in it even though I have never opened it or saved to. I only have the two logs in the 'Save' folder.my main station log and the demo log. This may be a 'glitch' on my part but as I have not edited or played around with the logs or had a computer crash I have no idea why it happened. I eventually found a '~xl' back up file which fortunately had the missing information in it!!! It may be worth you keeping an eye on your logs and saving your 'log file' on a regular basis 'just in case' there is a problem. 73, Carl GW0VSW __ 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
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem
At 10:15 AM 11/19/2009, Carl Mason wrote: Over the past three days I have opened the programme several times and each time my last entry was in the logbook. This morning when the log opened I had the problem. Do you have your log file on a network drive and do you ever access it from a remote computer? Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC d...@k7vc.com __ 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
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem
Or did you open the log on your USB drive by mistake and log QSOs there? This would be bad if you then backed up the log from the hard drive (that never had the QSOs) onto the USB device (that did). - Jim On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Dick Flanagan d...@k7vc.com wrote: At 10:15 AM 11/19/2009, Carl Mason wrote: Over the past three days I have opened the programme several times and each time my last entry was in the logbook. This morning when the log opened I had the problem. Do you have your log file on a network drive and do you ever access it from a remote computer? Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC d...@k7vc.com -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us __ 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
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem
Only the hardrive on my PC. I use no network or remote access. As I said before, It may just be a 'glitch' so passed the information on just in case! 73, Carl From: Dick Flanagan d...@k7vc.com To: Carl Mason gw0...@btinternet.com Cc: Dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, 19 November, 2009 21:31:46 Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem At 10:15 AM 11/19/2009, Carl Mason wrote: Over the past three days I have opened the programme several times and each time my last entry was in the logbook. This morning when the log opened I had the problem. Do you have your log file on a network drive and do you ever access it from a remote computer? Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC d...@k7vc.com __ 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
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem
Hi Jim, No USB drive was installed on the occasions I saved the log and closed down. Carl From: Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu To: Carl Mason gw0...@btinternet.com Cc: Sent: Thursday, 19 November, 2009 21:54:23 Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem Or did you open the log on your USB drive by mistake and log QSOs there? This would be bad if you then backed up the log from the hard drive (that never had the QSOs) onto the USB device (that did). - Jim On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Dick Flanagan d...@k7vc.com wrote: At 10:15 AM 11/19/2009, Carl Mason wrote: Over the past three days I have opened the programme several times and each time my last entry was in the logbook. This morning when the log opened I had the problem. Do you have your log file on a network drive and do you ever access it from a remote computer? Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC d...@k7vc.com -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us __ 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
Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem
Hi Mel, I am positive that the correct log was saved and have no explanation for the missing entries or the X's that replaced earlier logged QSO's. I have opened and saved the log several times today and made a few backups as well. All these files are good and work correctly. Carl From: Mel ve...@videotron.ca To: Carl Mason gw0...@btinternet.com Sent: Thursday, 19 November, 2009 22:18:30 Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem Well that eliminates cross-linked files as the problem (a nightmare with older FAT file systems). Can you be absolutely sure you never opened the demo log? If you did so even once, the program would open it automatically after that... As for the X's, it's hard to know if that happened while the log was open by DX4Win or there is another issue. It's a reminder that we not only need backups, but preferably a few generations... Carl Mason wrote: Hi Mel, I run XP Pro. When I leave the programme it says I have updated the logbook and do I want to save it. I always say 'yes' and up to now have not had a problem. I also back up the log to a memory stick, usually once a week. Over the past three days I have opened the programme several times and each time my last entry was in the logbook. This morning when the log opened I had the problem. Cheers, Carl From: Mel ve...@videotron.ca To: Carl Mason gw0...@btinternet.com Cc: dx4win@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, 19 November, 2009 14:58:50 Subject: A couple of questions before venturing an opinion... Which OS... and which File System if you know. When you say you will save your file... are you running it for days on end without doing a File Save or Cntl-S. The reason I ask this is if you have a scheduled backup running it will back up the file as it stood last time you did a File Save. If is important that anyone doing a scheduled backup save the file to disk periodically. Carl Mason wrote: Hi everyone, I went to open my log v8.02 this morning to find that I had lost three days of QSO's even though I have used and backed up the log daily. Not only that, the first 4000+ entires in my log had no information other than X's in all logbook fields! The demo log included with v8.02 had several days worth of my latest contacts in it even though I have never opened it or saved to. I only have the two logs in the 'Save' folder.my main station log and the demo log. This may be a 'glitch' on my part but as I have not edited or played around with the logs or had a computer crash I have no idea why it happened. I eventually found a '~xl' back up file which fortunately had the missing information in it!!! It may be worth you keeping an eye on your logs and saving your 'log file' on a regular basis 'just in case' there is a problem. 73, Carl GW0VSW __ 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
