[Dx4win] Oops

[David Kozinn, K2DBK]

Yeah, I guess that will work, not sure why I didn't think of it. (Too 
late in the day, can't use my usual "not enough coffee yet" excuse).

On 9/13/2009 4:32 PM, Mel wrote:
> Well you could export the new QSOs since the last conversion.
> Redo the conversion from the V7 log which you saved then merge the new 
> QSOs back in.
>
> Mel, VE2DC
>
> David Kozinn, K2DBK wrote:
>> Ok, this is entirely my own fault, I'm looking for a relatively easy 
>> way to fix this:
>>
>> When 8.01 came out, I used the multi-qso functions to update 
>> frequency, name, and QTH. Prior to doing that, I did a backup of my 
>> DXL file so that I could fall back. Although I knew that there were 
>> some issues with parsing the comments (which have been fixed in 
>> 8.02), I did a cursory check through the converted log and everything 
>> looked fine. I started using the new file and made some more 
>> contacts, and all seemed well.
>>
>> Yesterday I upgraded to 8.02 and decided to re-run the multi-qso 
>> functions again which worked fine. I did another spot check, but 
>> discovered what I'd missed the first time, which was that about 400 
>> QSO records had basically gotten the entire contents of the "Notes 
>> for this call" put in there, so I wound up with a bunch of things 
>> like "Fred, near London" in the Name field.
>>
>> I tried exporting just those fields (set a filter for "," in the name 
>> field) and exported those records using the DX4WIN 8 format, then 
>> tried to edit some of the records in the DXN file by hand as a test 
>> to see if I can manipulate things that way (I moved the QTH to where 
>> I thought the QTH field was) but when I re-imported (with "duplicate 
>> overwrites"), although the QTH field was correct, the Name field 
>> seemed to still contain all the information. (e.g., in the example 
>> above, it said "near London" in the QTH field, but still said "Fred, 
>> near London" in the Name field.
>>
>> I guess ideally I'd like a relatively easy way to just move the Name 
>> field back to "Notes for this QSO", then let DX4WIN just re-parse 
>> that, but I couldn't find a way to do that where I didn't wind up 
>> with duplicate info. I may well have been doing something wrong, but 
>> I can't figure out what.
>>
>> The worst case is that I'll go through the records manually and fix 
>> them (which is what I started doing), but I was wondering if anyone 
>> had any better suggestions?
>>
>

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