[Dx4win] 6.04 -> 7.02.15 migration

Mike Mellinger WA0SXV wa0sxv at mellinger.com
Mon Feb 19 16:38:45 EST 2007


Well, I finally bit the bullet and upgraded.  Was scared away initially by
all of the problems in early 7 releases as well as the usual messes made
with DXCC counts due to old stations that weren't in the old country file.
I used the migration instructions by Jim, AD1C (thanks!!!) and when finished
my country counts only differed by 1 -- which was traced to a card that the
ARRL accepted as different from the country file.  I suspect that the ARRL
and I goofed but I'll confirm that next time I can check the physical cards.

I also got bagged by the use of "K" versus "W".  A very slow edit of a CSV
file resolved this.  It SHOULD have been handled automatically by the
conversion.

Two issues remain:

1.  The migration procedure did not migrate GROUP NAMES and SELECTIONS.  I
finally handled this by taking a log file with the correct GROUP NAMES and
SELECTIONS, deleting all but one entry (DX4WIN doesn't want to store an
empty log) and then migrating in the cleaned-up log from the migration.
Worked fine.

2.  Virtually all SPOTS are showing as grey where many showed as black in
6.04.  Not sure that this is an issue but I do know that stations never
worked before are showing in grey which is a nuisance.

All else seems well.  Better be -- my backup copy got zapped someplace
during the migration.

73,
Mike WA0SXV





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