[Dx4win] [Fwd: Capital Crime (External Data)]

[Joe Giacobello]

Ernie, this is a message I sent to the list back about four years ago.  
It may be the source of your problem.  Hope it helps!

73, Joe

Several months back I asked for some help when I no longer could access
my QRZ CD ROM through DX4WIN (v4.07).  Although it had worked without
any problems up to that time through several versions of DX4WIN, I
suddenly started getting a "database not found" error.  I never did
receive any useful suggestions and the problem went unsolved for six
months while I was QRT.

I just got back on the air and nothing had changed, i.e I could not
access QRZ via DX4WIN although it would work if I accessed it directly.
I eventually found that the problem was that I had changed the drive
letter for the "Data Directory" in the external database set-up menu
from upper to lower case.  After I changed it back to a capital,
everything worked fine.  Unlike the drive letter in the "Executable
Program" slot, the Data Directory letter does not automatically switch
to a capital when you enter a lower case drive letter.

I thought this info might be of use to others who may be having a
similar problem.


73, Joe