[Dx4win] Missing QSOs

Sun Jan 3 21:25:10 EST 2016

There's nothing in particular wrong with using a SD Card for a backup. As
long it's not on the same hard drive as your primary database, it's a step
up from hoping that your hard drive never fails.
Murphy's law: the hard drive WILL fail before you back up your only P5 QSO.

I use Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) for storing my backup. That way, it's "in
the cloud" so always backed up.

(And it's stored on my PC, my Mac, and my Phone in case Dropbox ever closes
shop.)  Multiple redundant copies in the cloud means it's never lost.
That's the value of the cloud - it becomes Somebody Else's Problem to store
your data reliably.

OK, I'm a "Cloud Ninja" (that's what it says on the sticker on my Mac!) but
for the price (free!) it's a pretty good option.
73,
    -Rick

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Alan Zack <k7acz at cox.net> wrote:

> A long time ago I did a SAVE AS and changed the destination from the SAVE
> folder to a thumb drive as a form of backup. I made some new QSO's and
> saved
> and closed DX4WIN and removed the thumb drive. Next time I opened DX4WIN it
> told me it couldn't find my DXL file as it expected to find the thumb
> drive.
> I opened the SAVE window/folder and selected the DXL file found there. When
> DX4WIN opened I noticed my most recent QSO's were missing. Then I realized
> they had been saved in the thumb drive the last time I closed DX4WIN. I
> copied the more recent DXL file in the thumb drive to the SAVE file/folder
> and overwrote the older DXL. When I reopened DX4WIN all was FB. So if you
> save your log DXL file somewhere else other than the SAVE folder as a means
> of backup you may be creating a problem next time you open DX4WIN.
>
> From that lesson I now do the following when I want to copy/save my DXL
> file
> in another place for example a thumb drive.
> I go to FILE and select SAVE AS (not SAVE). This opens the SAVE AS window.
> I
> find my DXL file (or any other I want to copy/backup).
> I right click the DXL file and on the drop down menu select SEND TO>. I can
> then select any other drive, etc, to send the file to, in my case mostly a
> thumb drive.
>
> As another means of safely back up I use my PC SD slot. I leave a SD card
> in
> the PC SD slot all the time except when I might transfer photos from my
> camera. I went to FILE/PREFERENCE/QSO. In that window there is a small
> window SECONDARY BACK UP DEVICE. In that little window I put the location
> of
> my SD card, in my case it is named drive G:
> So now my back up info is stored on the SD card.
>
> Just wondering if anyone finds any fault in using a SD card in this manner.
> My PC SD slot is not used 99 per cent of the time. Why not put my DX4WIN
> back up files on it?
>
> 73 & HNY
> Alan K7ACZ
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DX4WIN [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David
> Kozinn, K2DBK
> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 8:31 AM
> To: Joe; DX4WIN at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Missing QSOs
>
> Any chance you might have written to a log that's not in your "save"
> folder?
>
> On 12/20/2015 7:53 AM, Joe wrote:
> > I have a strange problem.
> >
> >
> >
> > I transferred my RAC Winter contest QSO's (made on December 19) from
> > N1MM Logger this morning and that went fine.  But when I looked at the
> > logbook in DX4WIN 8.05, I noticed that all the QSOs I had logged
> > between December 12 and December 18 were missing.  These included
> > contacts from the 10M contest last weekend and a bunch of **90IARU
> > stations.  I can recreate these from other sources, but I'm pretty
> > active and I'm probably missing several dozen other QSOs.
> >
> >
> >
> > I tried arranging all the logs in the "save" folder in chronological
> > order to see if I might have entered the missing QSOs in another log
> > file, but there is nothing with a time stamp during the period from
> > 12/12 through today other than the main file, its backup, and the RAC
> contest file.
> >
> >
> >
> > I also looked in  N1MM logger to see if I might have mistakenly
> > entered the QSOs there, but I didn't.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've tried a global search for some callsigns I remember working
> > during that period with no luck.
> >
> >
> >
> > I worked a PA3 earlier this morning and his QSO is also missing.
> >
> >
> >
> > My last external backup was in November, so it's of no help here.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm running version 8.05 on a Samsung laptop with Windows 7.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any ideas would be welcome.
> >
> >
> >
> > Tnx es 73, Joe K1JB
> >
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