[Dx4win] Losing Q's on power outage

[Les Kalmus]

Glen,

I have always used a UPS with all my PCs. After getting creamed once or 
twice by power outages I found that the cost of one of these is worth 
it. I use APC which have a connection to your PC via serial or USB. The 
included software shuts your PC down gracefully in case of failure but 
if you size the UPS correctly your PC can run 5 to 10 minutes or more 
after power loss which give you more than enough time to shut it all 
down manually.

There are several other brands which I believe have the same capability.

As for DX4WIN, I have gotten in the habit of saving after every entry 
because of what you mentioned. If you do use the backup file in the 
circumstances you mentioned, rename the main file first so you have what 
to go back to, if necessary.

73, Les W2LK

Glen and Pam wrote:
> Has anyone a good fix for getting Q's logged to file in real time.... with NO buffer or backup file somewhere else on the harddrive.  I have just had another power outage from an electrical storm.  When you have a sudden shut down everything is supposed to be saved in the "backup file".  When a new reboot comes up you get the message about using this file.  How ever if some reason it didn't get written to this file and you load it on top of your working .dxl file, your screwed.  You just wiped Q's that are gone.  I try to keep a second file going to prevent this from happening but it required saving to the 2nd file as I remember.  Has anyone come up with a bullet proof way to prevent the lose of Q's in DX4WIN?   In several years of using this logging program that is the only problem I have had that is unacceptable.
> Thanks,
> Glen  K0JGH
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