[Dx4win] Comparing Log Files

[Dave Perry N4QS]

Bill,

I have also exported the two files in ADIF format and then used Excel to 
compare the two.  Very ease to open both files in Excel.  You can then 
resize the windows and reposition them side by side.  You can then scroll 
down and compare both.  I had to do this a couple of times when Lotw dropped 
a QSO with a bug they were having.  I had over 25,000 Q's to compare, but 
found the missing one in just a few minutes.  But a file comparison utility 
would work fine too.

Dave, N4QS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AC0W" <ac0w at charter.net>
To: "DX4WIN" <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:37 PM
Subject: [Dx4win] Comparing Log Files


> Does anyone have solution for comparing 2 DX4WIN log files to find entries
> that are different?
>
> Short version of the story. Somewhere along the line a lot of the state 
> data
> was deleted from many of my U.S. entries. By the time I discovered it was
> too late to go back and use one of the back up files as they all had the
> same change. Plus I also have added many more entries between when the
> incident occurred and when I discovered it.
>
> Up until now I had been manually going through each log entry to correct.
> However, last night I found an older log file that is still intact with 
> all
> the correct state data. Now if I can just find some way to compare the 
> files
> and make notes of the differences it would help speed up the process of
> fixing the file.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
> AC0W
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