[Dx4win] strange behavior - can someone help?

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Delete your DX4WIN.CFG file.  Start DX4WIN and merge your INI file.  See 
if that fixes the problem.  It sounds like your configuration file got 
corrupted.  This could have happened if you turned off the PC before 
DX4WIN had written everything back to disk.

73 - Jim AD1C

On 6/21/2010 6:44 PM, Rick Borken wrote:
> I've been using DX4WIN for several years, and I thought I understood it
> pretty well. But I recently saw some strange behavior, and I don't
> understand why it happened or how I can prevent it in the future. If someone
> can help, I would appreciate it.
>
> This is what happened. I closed the program, shut down my PC and turned off
> the power feeding the PC. Several hours later, I turned the power on, turned
> the computer on, and opened up DX4WIN, expecting it to boot up in exactly
> the same configuration it was in when I closed it. (As far as I know, the
> program had closed normally last time I shut it down.) In the past, it
> always came up in the same configuration it was in when I closed it.
>
> However, when I opened it up, it came up with the sample log, not my log;
> the main window was larger than normal; and most of the other windows I
> normally have open were not there. I looked at my preferences, and many were
> missing, so I merged a backup copy of my .ini file. That fixed the size of
> the main window and populated the preferences.
>
> I went through one-by-one and opened up the other windows I normally have
> open. Most, but not all, came up in the positions they were in when I last
> closed the program.
>
> Then I tried to bring up the report generator, to check if my DXCC and WAZ
> totals were correct. It failed to open. I clicked the "awards" button, and I
> saw that all the award data were missing. When I re-entered the data for
> DXCC and WAZ, the respective reports opened up and were correct.
>
> Any idea what happened?
>
> Thanks es 73, Rick K0XB
>
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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us