[Dx4win] DXCC Deleted Checked status data following upgrade

[Don Butler]

Thank you for the offer John, but Paul sent me my converted logfile yesterday ……. so I am back in business.

To bring the group up to date:  Paul promptly responded to my initial post yesterday morning …. And asked me to send him my version 7 logfile …. It did not take him long to confirm that there is a problem (loss of award flags) when migrating a version 7 logfile directly to version 9 ….. but he discovered that the award flag data will be preserved when you first migrate from version 7 to version 8 …. And then migrate the converted version 8 log to version 9 …… Paul then returned my converted logfile …… so the problem has been solved for me.

I guess I must be a member of a very small group of folks who have been happily using version 7 for seventeen years now! ….

I think it’s fair to say that each of us will have different needs as far as software is concerned.  Some want it to do more for them than others do.  Those who know me well will tell you that I have always been very serious about ARRL DXCC.  DX4WIN version 7 has done everything that I have wanted it to do to stay on top of my DXCC records ….. so I never did feel the need to upgrade to version 8….. and FWIW, in my case, the only reason that I upgraded to version 9 was for its new ability to handle FT8 QSO data.

I had logged about 1000 FT8 QSOs using version 7 ….. and had been substituting the rarely used “JT6M” mode for FT8 ….. and I was fortunately able to do a global edit using the multiple QSOs edit function to get that fixed in the new version 9 logfile …. I’m not sure if I’m going to be willing to change all of those invalid 599 signal reports however  😊

Thanks to Paul for the prompt response to my dilemma… I’m a happy camper.

73,
Don, N5LZ

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From: John, K9EL
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 12:11 PM
To: 'Don Butler'
Cc: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Dx4win] DXCC Deleted Checked status data following upgrade

If you do not have V8, send your log to me and I will do the V7 > V8 > V9 process.


73,
John K9EL

-----Original Message-----
From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 3:41 PM
To: Don Butler <n5lz at comcast.net>
Cc: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] DXCC Deleted Checked status data following upgrade

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Don Butler N5LZ wrote:

> I have just upgraded from version 7 to version 9 (specifically version 
> 7.07 to version 9.01) … After opening my version 7 logfile (which had 
> been copied to the “Save” folder in the newly installed version 9) all DXCC checked status data seems to have been deleted .....

Paul was able to determine that this is a migration problem from a v7 log directly to a v9 log.  If the log is migrated from v7 *through v8* then to v9, the award status flags are maintained.

None of the beta testers noticed this because we all started from 8.05 logs when we tested 9.01!

I assume this will be fixed in a future update.

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