[Dx4win] Help needed!

[Dave Sharred]

Hi Brad;

I am not sure why you are having so much trouble; my experience over 25 
years shows DX4WIN to be pretty robust to Microsoft changes.

I am hoping you can see my illustrated screen shot showing many logs; 
all DX4WIN Log files should have the exension *.DXL

You will see I am following the same file save location you do


73 Dave G3NKC

On 16/01/2025 22:44, Brad Anbro 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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