[Dx4win] Help needed!

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

By the way, if you used System Restore to restore your C:\ partition,
and that is the partition that DX4WIN is installed on, it probably
reverted the logs to the day that recovery point was generated.

I only have Windows on my C:\ partition.  I put everything else on a
separate partition.  It avoids these kinds of problems.  Yesterday, I
had done some work in another program, but for reasons I won't go
into, I had to restore my C:\ partition from the 4 a.m. daily backup.
All the work I had done that morning was preserved because it did not
take place on the C:\ partition.


On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Brad,
>
> I'm sorry about your problems.
>
> The default location for your log is in the dx4w###\SAVE directory.
> The files with ~ in the file extension are backups of those files
> (from the previous save).  You should read this application note:
>
> https://ad1c.us/dx4win/appnotes/backup.html
>
> Also "save2" can be used as a "duplicate" backup location, see the QSO
> tab of your preferences.
>
> You should be running daily backups of your important data files.
> That's also mentioned in the application note.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM Brad Anbro <n9en at live.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am running DX4WIN ver. 9.0.9.1259 on a Windows 10 Pro machine and have a major problem. I have found in the past that the program DOES NOT like power outages when the program is in use and does NOT like it when Microsoft updates my computer.
> >
> > A few days ago, I received another update from Microsoft and the DX4WIN program would not work correctly. In the past, when I would receive an update or would experience a power failure, I would have to resort to uninstalling the program and then re-installing it, after which I would find all of the QSOs in my log book.
> >
> > This time, that process did not work. I keep two separate log books - the main one for my N9EN QSOs and a separate one for the QSOs that I have made when I operate my "W4A" special event. I tried to restore the computer to an earlier date, with disastrous results. After (finally) undoing the restore, I again had a working computer.
> >
> > What I have now is the "W4A" QSOs in both log books. In the past, when exiting the program, I would religiously select "save" and "backup" before closing the program. I KNOW that I have saved the N9EN QSOs at least up to December 18, when I began my W4A special event.
> >
> > The DX4WIN program is installed in the "Windows (C:) directory and is called "dx4w903." In that directory is a folder called "SAVE" and it appears that the logbook files are in that folder, as there are files named [N9EN_LOG.~xl], [N9EN_LOG], [W4A.~xl] and [W4A].
> >
> > I have tried replacing the N9EN files in the "SAVE" folder with files that I had saved to my "Documents" and after replacing the N9EN files in the "SAVE" folder with the saved files, that did not help.
> >
> > Is there a different directory in which the "actual" logbook files are located? I am at wit's end as how to take care of this problem. Prior to using DX4WIN, I had used a program called "Log Windows" - that program would not run on any operating system newer than Windows XP and it also did not like QSOs that were newer than December 31, 2020. That was why I switched to the new program.
> >
> > I have never had so much trouble with any computer program as I have had with DX4WIN. I only use the program for referring to past QSOs and to keep track of sending and receiving QSLs.
> >
> > I would very much appreciate any help that I can receive on my problem. Thank you very much.
> >
> > 73 de Brad, N9EN / W4A
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> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, https://ad1c.us



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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, https://ad1c.us