[Dx4win] Duplicates

[N4QS]

There might be a workaround for keeping your QSOs with QSL data.  Follow 
Jim's steps below.  After you rename your current log and put it in a safe 
place, then open that log, click on Filter and for the Confim field select 
Y.  This will select all QSOs that have been confirmed via a card.  Export 
these QSOs into a new DX4WIN8 file and name it something like your call 
confirmed.  Then import this file into your new empty log file while 
choosing the Duplicate Will be Ignored option.

Go back to your saved big file, click on Filter and select Y for the Cnfm 
Lotw field.  This will select all QSOs that have been confirmed via LOTW. 
Export this file to a DX4WIN8 file and name it something like your call 
lotw.  Import this file into your new log file while choosing the Duplicate 
Will Be Ignored option.

Finally, go back to your big original file, unselect all filters, export to 
a DX4WIN8 file that you name something like your call all.  Import this file 
into your new log file while choosing the Duplicate Will be Ignored option.

This should get all of your QSOs from your orginal save file to your new 
file while saving your confirmed QSOs and deleting any duplicates.  I am 
assuming that you do not care about eQSL confirmations.

I hope others will verify my logic, but I am thinking that this will do the 
trick.  As long as you save your original file, you can always go back and 
start over.

Takes a little work and you have to be careful with what you are doing --  
but it provides an automated way to clean up over 60,000 Qs!

Good luck.

Dave, N4QS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
To: "Dave Earnest" <k7jj at arrl.net>
Cc: "DX4WIN" <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Duplicates


> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Dave Earnest <k7jj at arrl.net> wrote:
>
>> I think as a result of trying to merge LoTW info or some other log, I 
>> have now got thousands of duplicate qso's in my DX4WIN lof.  Does anyone 
>> have a solution, maybe a utility that can deal with and edit out dupes?
>
> The way to do this is:
>
> 1.  rename your log and put it in a SAFE place.
>
> 2.  Create a new (empty log)
>
> 3.  Log one single QSO (with your own call, but it doesn't matter)
>
> 4.  File | Import/Export then File | Merge DX4WIN Log.  You will be
> given an option what to do about duplicate QSOs.  Choose "Duplicate
> QSO is ignored."
>
> The real problem is which duplicate QSO is removed?  The one with your
> QSL data, or the one you erroneously imported?  There is no way to
> answer this question.
>
> - Jim
>
> -- 
> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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