[Dx4win] Automatic Backup doesn't work?

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Hi Bob,

I'm sorry you lost QSOs.

Please read the application note about Backups that I wrote:

   http://dx4win.ad1c.us/

This should answer most of your questions.

73 - Jim AD1C


On 1/10/2008 7:35 AM, W5LT wrote:
> Hi All:
> DX4WIN lost a few of my latest Q's last night when XP did a 'security
> update' on my laptop.
> I am using 7.02.15.
> The update reboots while DX4WIN is running, and apparently the program does
> not shut down & recover gracefully.
> I usually do a 'save' after a QSO to be sure it is saved to disk, but in
> this case I must have forgot.
> I have set the 'backup' time to 1 minute in the preferences, and thought
> that would protect me when I forget to manually save the file.
> After this event, I monitored the log file while the program is running
> (using Explorer), and never saw the date/time change as I would expect if it
> did a 'auto save'.
> Am I missing something or need to set the auto-backup feature differently?
> Thanks for any help/suggestions.
> 
> Bob, W5LT


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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us