[Dxbase] [DXBase] error message on initialize tables

[David Ritchie]

Just a suggestion, but:
1)  check an old saved version of this file (from your periodic backups) against the one in there now and see if they differ materially - if they do, swap em. - If that doesn't fix it, swap em anyway - there may be some sort of random corruption.
2)  If you can't find that file, swap in the old known-good file
3)  what I do to avoid this sort of thing is make a complete duplicate of the entire DXBASE sub-directory every few months or so, then I keep the last few on the backup drives just in case.  If you have 170k entries you are undoubdedly already doing this or something very similar.
4)  Worst case, reinstall the whole thing into a new directory (clean install) and load the backup QSO ADIF.
W6DR


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Subject: [DXBase] error message on initialize tables

Overnight windows shut down my computer and did an update. so this morning when I opened DXBase I got the usual message telling me to run initialize tables.
I did that but each qso entry, beginning with 1A0KM, I got an error message "the value 1A 0KM <14> was not found in the CQ-Zone-Numeric-Statistics table".
Said to correct the QSO entry or get a valid table. Never had this problem before and all was well last night.
If I answer "OK" it goes to next qso and repeats. I have 170,000 qsos so not practical to correct each one (and appears they are correct - e.g 1A0KM is zone 14 as appears in the error message)
I can't even get out of the app. Had to use task manager to close it.

any ideas for how to fix this?

Hank  KF2O

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