Dick, One thing to watch out for. If you had the ~xb log saved in the memory stick, renamed it, then had DX4WIN find it and load it from the memory stick DX4WIN will now try to save your new log entries to the memory stick and not to the regular SAVE folder.
You should do the following: 1. With DX4WIN open and running go to FILE and in the drop down window click on SAVE AS. Your DX4WIN save folder will open. Click on KS0M.dxl and rename it so it will be safe. Try a new name like KS0Mold.dxl. 2. Go back to your memory stick and copy the KS0M.dxl log file that is saved in the memory stick. 3. Copy that KS0M.dxl file from the memory stick to the DX4WIN SAVE folder and paste it there. 4. Now in the DX4WIN/SAVE folder you should have 2 log files, KS0M.dxl and KS0Mold.dxl. 5. Close the DX4WIN log so that all you see is the small top window with FILE RADIO HELP along the top. 6. Click on FILE then OPEN. Your DX4WIN SAVE folder will appear. Click on KS0M.dxl then OPEN to open the logging window. 7. Now with the logger window open Go to FILTER then COUNT and make note of the total QSO's it shows in the KS0M.dxl log. Also look at the contacts in the log and see if they look like they are all there. 8. Now go back to the main FILE menu and click on CLOSE. The logging window will close. 9. Repeat step 6 except this time select the KS0Mold.dxl (not KS0M.dxl) file. 10. Repeat step 7 to compare the KS0M.dxl saved log to the KS0Mold.dxl saved log. 11. Decide which one is the most accurate and make it your real KS0M.dxl log file. There is a good chance they may be identical or there is a chance one has more QSO's than the other. Whichever one you decide to use should be named KS0M.dxl. Now when you open DX4WIN it will look for and open the KS0M.dxl log file in the DX4WIN/SAVE folder. Hope this helps. Congrads on being 87 yrs old and still being able to figure this stuff out. I am a young fart at 69 but still at times struggle. But we were weaned on IBM clones with no Hard Drives where you had to stick a 7 inch floppy into the drive with the DOS program commands to let it boot up then put in a different floppy to run a program. It was a big day for me when I paid almost $200 for a 50 kb Hard Drive so I could put DOS on it so I didn't need a floppy to boot up the PC. GL, Alan, K7ACZ -----Original Message----- From: dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dick White Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 6:22 PM To: DX4WIN Reflector Post Subject: [Dx4win] FW: lost QSO's Jim / AD1C I finally have my full log back, thanks to you. I could not get the ks0m.~xb file into DX4WIN at first. I finally saved it on a memory stick, changed the name to ks0m.dxl and then had DX4WIN open it and save it. All QSO's through May 12 are now back in the log. It sure is a relief to get it all back. It took me a while to understand what you were telling me. But, when you are 4 months away from being 87 years old it just takes a little longer to understand. I did put a call in the log and I did see the "modified" sign pop up. I was not aware of why it did that. It has been a while since I read the DX4WIN Manuel J From now on it is backup, backup, backup every time I add calls. Thank you very much for you good help. 73 Dick KS0M "Lord help me to be the person my dog thinks I am" Richard C. (Dick) White Fulton, MO. 65251 U.S.A. Amateur Radio Station KS0M From: jjreis...@gmail.com [mailto:jjreis...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 5:26 PM To: white...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: lost QSO's On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Dick White <white...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Jim, > Thanks for the help. I have looked for all the extensions ending in > .dxl and ~xl. I can only find 3 .~xl and one (current) .dxl file. > The .~xl files are for February and March. > I found a KS0M.~XB file and opened it in notebook. It was difficult to read > but I found some calls near the end and they are not in my current log. How > can I put this file into my DX4WIN log, or this be done ? Copy it to a name with a .DXL extension, as I said: > You'll probably need to search for all *xl files you can find. The > latest/largest one is the best you can do. You will have to give it a .DXL > extension for DX4WIN to be able to open it (if it's a .~xl, .dxb or > .~xb file). ______________________________________________________________ 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
