This bug has been around a long time... I'm not sure how far back it goes. It happened to me once... I have no idea why and has never happened since (so I can understand why it's hard to track down). However I ALWAYS hit alt-s immediately after working a new one. It's kinda stupid you have to do this... but another overdue item for Paul is a journal file. That can't be hard to accomplish... just write a record to an ADIF text file after each Add Paul... and make it optional if you are concerned about performance in case someone is still running DX4Win off a floppy drive ;-)
Alan Zack wrote: > Yesterday I had a very strange thing occur with DX4WIN. I have been a > registered user for many years. Currently using ver 7.07.02. I have NEVER > seen this happen before. > > I opened DX4WIN using the same shortcut as always. It appeared to open > normally. I saw ZL7T spotted on 17m CW on the DXCluster (I did not have > PACKET open on DX4WIN, instead I was using the separate VE3SUN DX Monitor > program for my spotting). I did an F8 search for ZL7 to see if I needed them > on 17m CW. I did, so I worked them, and all seemed OK. I had received some > QSL cards in the mail so I did F8 searches for those calls and marked them as > confirmed. Over the next few hours I worked C6/W6DXC on 20m SSB, C56YK on > RTTY, and H40FN on 17m CW. Again, before working H40FN I did a F8 search to > see if I needed H40 on 17m CW. All my F8 searches went normally and when I > logged each new contact I searched for their QSL info and put the info and > address in the QSL MGR window. Everything seemed to be working FB. My > complete log was open and seemed to be working normally. > But then, when I was ready to shut down I did an ALT+S to save the changes. > OK. I then clicked on the uppermost right corner X to close the program. When > I did that a window opened saying C:\PROGRAM FILES\DX4WIN707\SAVE\K7ACZ.DXL > WAS MODIFIED, SAVE LOG TO DISK? I clicked on YES. Another window opened > saying something to the effect that changes could not be saved in DEMO mode. > I looked at the top of the main menu. It read something to the effect DX4WIN > DEMO MODE. It should have read DX4WIN 7.07.2 K7ACZ, etc. At this point I knew > I was in trouble. I needed to close the window that said: C:\PROGRAM > FILES\DX4WIN707\SAVE\K7ACZ.DXL WAS MODIFIED, SAVE LOG TO DISK? so I could > write down on a pad the calls, times, modes, etc, of the contacts I had made > during the day so I could reenter them when I could open the program back to > normal logging again. So I hit the CANCEL option thinking that would cancel > the closing of the program. But it closed anyway causing me to lose all the > cont act > s I had made during the day including a new mode (RTTY) for C56YK and a new > band/mode (18m CW) for ZL7T and H40FN. I can't remember when during the 6 or > so hours DX4WIN was open I actually made those contacts, all I can do is > guess within an hour or so. > > When I restarted DX4WIN of course those contacts and changes made while in > DEMO mode were gone. Is there anyway to retrieve those contacts? Could they > be saved someplace I can't think of? > How and why did DX4WIN get into the DEMO mode anyway? I can't duplicate it. I > don't see how to get it into DEMO mode even if I wanted to. > _______________________________________________________ > Alan Zack > Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ > Las Vegas, Nevada, USA > Delta Rocket Quality Engineer, The Boeing Company, Retired > Aviation Chief Warrant Officer, U.S. Coast Guard, Retired > ______________________________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- Mel, VE2DC ______________________________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Dx4win@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
