Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

DX4WIN has two save locations:

1.  The SAVE directory
2.  The Secondary Backup Directory you can specify on the QSO tab of
your preferences

#1 should *always* be a local hard drive, preferably one connected via
an IDE or (S)ATA interface, not a USB interface.  You want your log to
be saved as fast as possible.  This minimizes the amount of time you
need to wait between exiting DX4WIN and shutting down your computer.

#2 saves at the same media speed as #1.  If you use a USB flash drive,
then it will take DX4WIN longer to write the files to the secondary
save location.

I gave up on using USB flash drives for backup years ago - they are
just too darn slow for me.  They tend to "lock up" DX4WIN the entire
time the files are being written.  I guess that's a good thing if you
are planning on shutting down your computer.  It's not so good if you
want to quickly save your log and work someone else right away.

Here's what I do:

1.  I leave my computer on all the time.

2.  I never exit DX4WIN unless I have to reboot.  My log is always
open, but saved when I am not there (see #3).

3.  I try to remember to save (ALT-S) my log every time I step away
from the operating position.  99.44% of the time at least.

4.  My Secondary Backup Directory is actually DX4W805\SAVE2, i.e. the
same local drive as the SAVE directory.

5.  I use SyncBackSE to synchronize my entire DX4W805 directory to a
location on my home's local area network (my development/office
computer upstairs).  This allows me to access the log from the other
computer, as well as synchronize changes in both directions.  I also
synchronize my WriteLog directory the same way.

6.  I have a local Acronis backup job on the ham computer that runs
every night, to a USB-connected hard drive (Western Digital My Desk).
Note that I only started this a week or two ago!  I have never been
unable to recover data from a crashed ham computer, i.e. I have never
lost the hard drive.

7.  I have a local Acronis backup job on the development computer that
runs every night, to a USB-connected hard drive (Western Digital My
Desk).

8.  I use Carbonite to continuously backup my development computer to the cloud.

I realize the above is almost certainly overkill, but I have never
lost my log, only a rare QSO here or there, mostly due to writing the
log from the development computer, and forgetting to reload it on the
ham computer before logging a new QSO.

When I wake up in the morning, I have at least five backup copies of
my log, in addition to the copy in the SAVE directory:

- SAVE2 directory
- network path
- ham computer backup
- development computer backup
- cloud

I could probably run Carbonite on the ham computer, and get rid of the
local Acronis backup, however, that costs more than my current
solution.  Local backups are good when you accidentally delete a lot
of stuff and want to get it back quickly.  Cloud backup is good for
recovering a random file here or there that hasn't changed recently.
Neither solution is ideal for recovering a recently-created file that
was just deleted.  I believe you can use Windows System Restore to do
this, though I have not had a chance to try it yet.  Check your PC -
if System Restore is NOT enabled, you may want to do so.

That's probably way too much information.

Regardless of what you do, do *not* "log to" the Secondary Backup
Directory directly!  I don't know what will happen, but it probably
isn't good.

73 - Jim AD1C

p.s. my current plan of record is to replace my ham hard drive with a
500 GB SSD (which I already have in hand), and use the existing
mechanical drive for backup, in place of the USB drive.  My concern is
that if I am operating a contest at 3 a.m. when the backup job starts,
it will cause a noticiable slowdown that will interfere with my
contest operating.  Backing up to a SATA drive should be much faster
and less noticable. Plus, if the computer crashes while operating, it
will reboot much more quickly from an SSD.

-- 
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Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

[Alan Zack]

Thanks Jim,

I think I am somewhat redundant also.
When I do a SAVE (ALT+S) my DXL and CTY file goes to DX4WIN/SAVE
When I do a BACKUP (ALT+B) I don't know where my stuff goes. I should know, but 
I don't
My SECONDARY BACKUP goes to a SD card.
I have Carbonite, QUICKEN BACK UP, and my ISP has a cloud at COX.NET. These 
three run a back up on their own schedule at least once a day, one of them is 
once an hour. I have my DXL file saved on those back ups. I have to admit I 
really don't know where they go and how to retrieve them if I need to but feel 
confident if I ever need to retrieve them Carbonite, Quicken, and Cox will be 
able to help me. Carbonite also has a mirror image backup on an Ext HD.

We have iPhones and have the Apple Cloud to save and share photos etc from the 
iPhone to the Apple Cloud. My in house WiFi (password protected) interconnects 
all my PC's laptops, tablets, iPhones, printer, and home security. I think I 
have it set to save my DXL file also.

My system is not as fast or complete as yours. However, being an EE guy and not 
an IT I don't understand all the newer IT technology or programming that I 
should. I don't want to say I'm getting old (72) but the XYL teases me when we 
go to an Air Museum and the actual planes I used to fly are now static display 
museum pieces.

Things have gone a long way since my first IBM Clone in the 1980's with the 5 
1/2 inch floppy disk that you had to insert in the drive for the PC to boot up. 
Everything was DOS then and you had a mess of floopy disks to insert to run 
programs. A year or so later HD's got cheap enough I could afford to buy one. 
The memory size was very small but now I could boot up and run some programs 
from the HD without messing with the floppies. My first logging program was 
WJ20 and first contest logger was CT, both in the DOS format. Before that, I 
remember in contests hand logging onto a paper log with paper DUPE sheets 
spread across the room, one for each band. At that time, I was a test engineer 
at Rockwell Intl working with the space shuttle, MX Missile, and B1B Bomber 
avionics. From what I understand today's iPhones, etc, have more computing 
capability and power that the Space Shuttle computers. Good thing the Vulcans 
decided to share their technology with us humans.


-Original Message-
From: Jim Reisert AD1C [mailto:jjreis...@alum.mit.edu] 
Sent: Monday, January 4, 2016 10:38 AM
To: DX4WIN Reflector
Cc: Alan Zack
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

DX4WIN has two save locations:

1.  The SAVE directory
2.  The Secondary Backup Directory you can specify on the QSO tab of your 
preferences

#1 should *always* be a local hard drive, preferably one connected via an IDE 
or (S)ATA interface, not a USB interface.  You want your log to be saved as 
fast as possible.  This minimizes the amount of time you need to wait between 
exiting DX4WIN and shutting down your computer.

#2 saves at the same media speed as #1.  If you use a USB flash drive, then it 
will take DX4WIN longer to write the files to the secondary save location.

I gave up on using USB flash drives for backup years ago - they are just too 
darn slow for me.  They tend to "lock up" DX4WIN the entire time the files are 
being written.  I guess that's a good thing if you are planning on shutting 
down your computer.  It's not so good if you want to quickly save your log and 
work someone else right away.

Here's what I do:

1.  I leave my computer on all the time.

2.  I never exit DX4WIN unless I have to reboot.  My log is always open, but 
saved when I am not there (see #3).

3.  I try to remember to save (ALT-S) my log every time I step away from the 
operating position.  99.44% of the time at least.

4.  My Secondary Backup Directory is actually DX4W805\SAVE2, i.e. the same 
local drive as the SAVE directory.

5.  I use SyncBackSE to synchronize my entire DX4W805 directory to a location 
on my home's local area network (my development/office computer upstairs).  
This allows me to access the log from the other computer, as well as 
synchronize changes in both directions.  I also synchronize my WriteLog 
directory the same way.

6.  I have a local Acronis backup job on the ham computer that runs every 
night, to a USB-connected hard drive (Western Digital My Desk).
Note that I only started this a week or two ago!  I have never been unable to 
recover data from a crashed ham computer, i.e. I have never lost the hard drive.

7.  I have a local Acronis backup job on the development computer that runs 
every night, to a USB-connected hard drive (Western Digital My Desk).

8.  I use Carbonite to continuously backup my development computer to the cloud.

I realize the above is almost certainly overkill, but I have never lost my log, 
only a rare QSO here or there, mostly due to writing the log from the 
development computer, and forgetting to reload it on the ham computer before 
logging a new QSO.

When I wake up in the morning, I hav

Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Alan Zack wrote:

> When I do a BACKUP (ALT+B) I don't know where my stuff goes. I should know, 
> but I don't

DX4WIN has a background update feature.  You can read about it in
Help.  When you make a change to your log, a countdown timer starts.
You can see the effects of this timer by observing the word Modified
in RED in the main DX4WIN window (not the logging window).  When this
timer counts down to zero, your log is written to a temporary backup
file, and the message changes from RED to BLACK, indicating that a
backup has been written.

Backup (ALT-B) immediately resets the countdown timer to zero and
writes the file.  It does NOT save your log like ALT-S does.  It
simply bypasses the countdown timer.

For more on backup files, see the "Data Protection" application note
on http://dx4win.ad1c.us/

-- 
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Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

[Rick Murphy]

There's nothing in particular wrong with using a SD Card for a backup. As
long it's not on the same hard drive as your primary database, it's a step
up from hoping that your hard drive never fails.
Murphy's law: the hard drive WILL fail before you back up your only P5 QSO.

I use Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) for storing my backup. That way, it's "in
the cloud" so always backed up.

(And it's stored on my PC, my Mac, and my Phone in case Dropbox ever closes
shop.)  Multiple redundant copies in the cloud means it's never lost.
That's the value of the cloud - it becomes Somebody Else's Problem to store
your data reliably.

OK, I'm a "Cloud Ninja" (that's what it says on the sticker on my Mac!) but
for the price (free!) it's a pretty good option.
73,
-Rick

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Alan Zack <k7...@cox.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 

Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

[Alan Zack]

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
>
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Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

[Alan Zack]

Duane,

Just to avoid confusion that shud be ALT+S and ALT+B, not CTL


-Original Message-
From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Duane
Calvin
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 9:16 AM
To: 'David Kozinn, K2DBK'; 'Joe'; DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

There is another, more sinister possibility.  If you worked them, and didn't
expressly do a save of the new data, then MS applied updates, causing a
shutdown without saving, that can bite your log bigtime.  I've gotten so as
soon as an entry is made, I do a CTRL-S to save the log, and often a CTRL-B
to back it up also.  I've lost data from my logs a few times over the years
and that is painful.

73, Duane

Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
ac...@ac5aa.com 


-Original Message-
From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David
Kozinn, K2DBK
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:31 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
>
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Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

[Duane Calvin]

Yep, you're right.  Got 'em switched up.  Must have been using WriteLog that
week - hi!

73, Duane

Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
ac...@ac5aa.com 


-Original Message-
From: Alan Zack [mailto:k7...@cox.net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2016 1:33 PM
To: 'Duane Calvin'; 'David Kozinn, K2DBK'; 'Joe'; DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

Duane,

Just to avoid confusion that shud be ALT+S and ALT+B, not CTL


-Original Message-
From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Duane
Calvin
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 9:16 AM
To: 'David Kozinn, K2DBK'; 'Joe'; DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

There is another, more sinister possibility.  If you worked them, and didn't
expressly do a save of the new data, then MS applied updates, causing a
shutdown without saving, that can bite your log bigtime.  I've gotten so as
soon as an entry is made, I do a CTRL-S to save the log, and often a CTRL-B
to back it up also.  I've lost data from my logs a few times over the years
and that is painful.

73, Duane

Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
ac...@ac5aa.com 


-Original Message-
From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David
Kozinn, K2DBK
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:31 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
>
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Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

[Duane Calvin]

There is another, more sinister possibility.  If you worked them, and didn't
expressly do a save of the new data, then MS applied updates, causing a
shutdown without saving, that can bite your log bigtime.  I've gotten so as
soon as an entry is made, I do a CTRL-S to save the log, and often a CTRL-B
to back it up also.  I've lost data from my logs a few times over the years
and that is painful.

73, Duane

Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
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-Original Message-
From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David
Kozinn, K2DBK
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:31 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
>
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Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs

[David Kozinn, K2DBK]

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

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