[Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem

2009-11-19 Thread Carl Mason
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

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem

2009-11-19 Thread Mel
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

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem

2009-11-19 Thread Carl Mason
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

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem

2009-11-19 Thread Dick Flanagan
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

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem

2009-11-19 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
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

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem

2009-11-19 Thread Carl Mason
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

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem

2009-11-19 Thread Carl Mason
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

Re: [Dx4win] DX4WIN v8.02 log problem

2009-11-19 Thread Carl Mason
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