[Dx4win] merge question

[Loren Hunt]

Steve,
Wow! I had the same problem when I switched to DX4WIN in January. The Freeware software dumped the oldest QSO when I made a new entry. Thanks to LoTW I was able to recover the whole thing.

First start with a new log file and then import all those LoTW files into it. After you are satisfied it is OK, make a backup of your main log and put it in a safe place just in case. 

Now import the log you created from the LoTW log. Choose to ignore duplicate QSOs.

This is what I did and everything was recovered.

73
AD6ZJ, Loren


--- On Thu, 3/31/11, Steve K7AWB <k7awbgoog at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Steve K7AWB <k7awbgoog at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Dx4win] merge question
> To: Dx4win at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 7:41 PM
> A friend has his DX4WIN log which may
> be missing several thousand QSOs due to an error in a
> previous competitive program (made before the transfer to
> DX4WIN as the new main logging program now).  I have a
> special adif download from LOTW which may include those
> missing QSOs.  How can I merge the downloaded file into
> the main log, but prevent duplicates?  I made a special
> DX4WIN log of the 50K+ QSOs adif's for an easy merge. 
> 
> What defines a duplicate QSO from a non-duplicate
> QSO?  I mean how many parameters must match to be a
> dup?
> 
> 73
> 
> Steve K7AWB
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