[Dx4win] 1. Fatal error occured (Claes "Mel" Carneheim)

[wa6ibu at earthlink.net]

I've had this happen often and for no apparent reason and no clear
explanation either.  I'll close the program or Microsoft decides to update
and reboot while program is open.  About 1/4 of the time "country.dat" is
missing and can't start the program.  Everything is up to date too.  I used
to reinstall it when this happened.  But not I save a copy of the
country.dat file in backup, and re-copy it to the "save" directory so that I
can get it to execute again.

Paul, W6IBU

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   1. Fatal error occured (Claes "Mel" Carneheim)
   2. Re: Fatal error occured (Paul van der Eijk)


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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:29:10 +0100
From: "Claes \"Mel\" Carneheim" <sm0mpv at gmail.com>
To: dx4win <Dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Dx4win] Fatal error occured
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Hello,

When I tried to start DX4WIN  i got the following error message:
A fatal error occured:
The file C:\dx4w903\SAVE\country.dat is missing

It is not possible to start the program, so the country.dat file seems to be
essential.

What should I do? Where can I find the country.dat file?

It might have been so that I had opened the reports|award|DDCC|Modes window
and left the computer on, so it went into sleeping mode before everything
happened,

I am using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme2nd gen with Windows 11 and have the
latest update of DX4WIN.

73 de Mel -SM0MPV (8S0C, SM3U)


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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:49:09 -0400
From: Paul van der Eijk <pvandereijk at gmail.com>
To: "Claes \"Mel\" Carneheim" <sm0mpv at gmail.com>
Cc: dx4win <Dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Fatal error occured
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Mel,

You most likely have an older version in the backups subdirectory. Copy the
file to the Save subdirectory and start the program again.
Do Help | Check for updates to get the latest version.

?Paul

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DX4WIN logging software
Paul van der Eijk, KK4HD
BrookHill Data Systems LLC
http://www.dx4win.com



On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 7:29?AM Claes "Mel" Carneheim <sm0mpv at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When I tried to start DX4WIN  i got the following error message:
> A fatal error occured:
> The file C:\dx4w903\SAVE\country.dat is missing
>
> It is not possible to start the program, so the country.dat file seems 
> to be essential.
>
> What should I do? Where can I find the country.dat file?
>
> It might have been so that I had opened the reports|award|DDCC|Modes 
> window and left the computer on, so it went into sleeping mode before 
> everything happened,
>
> I am using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme2nd gen with Windows 11 and 
> have the latest update of DX4WIN.
>
> 73 de Mel -SM0MPV (8S0C, SM3U)
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