On 3 Jun 2020 at 14:02, Bill Somerville wrote: > Hi Martin, > > the ADIF specification treats any characters outside of the specified > ADIF tags and data as commentary, i.e. it is ignored. I recommend that > you use an ADIF export from your logging program to replace your damaged > wsjtx_log.adi file. ADIF exports from QSL matching services usually do > not have enough information, or have missing records. You can do the > export and replace the file (perhaps move aside the old one if you don't > keep system backups - but of course you do have system backup don't > you?). The next restart of WSJT-X or simply a press of the > "Settings->Colours->Recan ADIF log" button will pick up the new data.
Hi Bill, many thanks for your swift reply to my query. Yes, I'm familiar with how apps are expected to treat anything outside the ADIF tags with the their associated data but I just wanted to make sure that when WSJT-X scans a re-created wsjtx_log.adi file, the presence of the additional CR/LF pairs in-between many of the ADIF fields wouldn't cause any hiccups - I didn't for a minute expect it would but it's always wise to check these things to be sure! I could do as you suggest and archive the existing, shortened but otherwise undamaged, wsjtx_log.adi file and then create from my logging app or wherever a new version of wsjtx_log.adi that includes all the missing records, but equally I could export from the logging app all the ADIF records for the QSOs currently missing from the wsjtx_log.adi file and then paste all those ADIF records into the start of the existing file and just live with the different formatting in the first part of the file - all the ADIF tags and the associated data would of course be valid, though. Also, to address your observation about backups, yes I do have multiple backups of everything but sadly they don't cover as far back as when I must have inadvertently deleted the records from the wsjtx_log.adi file. However, I do have some 18month-old back-up images that I've retrieved from the hard disk removed from a failed NAS unit so I might be able to find a legacy version of the wsjtx_log.adi file that includes the missing ADIF records in the back-up images - fingers crossed! -- 73, Martin G0HDB -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
