That reminded me of another conversion bug I encountered. It didn't affect that many QSOs in my case...
When the Frequency was extracted from QSOs that had previously been imported and still had "Frequency=frequency" at the beginning, the newly formatted Note had the first part of the note actually overwritten by "Frequency="... I just fixed them manually. Ernie Walls wrote: > Just a couple of comments. > > > > Point 1: I managed to transfer frequency information from the > 'Notes for this QSO' column of V7 absolutely perfectly, in that all data was > neatly and correctly arranged into the frequency column in V8. In every QSO > in my log, since moving from a wonderful old program WJ2O, that never made > it into the Windows environment, frequency information came first. Then > followed other, general, QSO information. > > Unfortunately, some of this additional information that was also in the > 'Notes for this QSO' column was 'scrunched up' (explanation - some > additional information was also taken from the 'Notes' column in V7, along > with the frequency information, but never made it to anywhere in V8) and, > apparently, 'lost' in the transition, which would have made a huge job > requirement for me to manually edit what information was left in the 'Notes' > to correct (or tidy up) the problem created. I will leave this to a future > day, but will probably never update frequency info on my old QSOs, just > start from now, as I much prefer to retain my 'Notes' info neatly, correctly > and fully. > > > > Point 2: Like, it seems, many others, I wrote the contacts name > and QTH in the 'Notes for this Call' box in V7, separated by one space. It > was neat and effective. But, as we now know, not transferable unless you > make so many 'contortional' movements' that you risk losing sight of what > you are doing, and if I read the reflector comments correctly, even then it > doesn't work 100%, which for me means 'don't do it at all'. I have the > information still there in V8, albeit now in the wrong box, but again I will > not risk losing, or distorting my hard collected information just for the > sake of transferring t5he information - like in point 1 above, I shall start > from my next QSO to place name and QTH in the new boxes. > > > > For the first time in my life, I think I was smart, in that several of the > update features, like the above, I actually tried on a separate computer, > with full copies of everything available to me - thus when I did the actual > update on my 'live' data, I did not 'mess' anything up! > > > > Bottom line - I thought the upgrade from V6 to V7 was a non-event for me, > because MMTTY never worked for me anywhere near as well as MixW (and then > simply transferring QSO information via ADI file) did, and I like MixW much > better anyway, but V8 has some excellent features, and is well worth the few > dollars I spent to upgrade. > > > > Paul - job well done, and thank you for your efforts. > > > > Ernie > > Ernie Walls VK3FM > > > > vk...@wallsy.com.au > > vk...@arrl.net > > Mobile 0418 301 483 > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
