Re: [Dx4win] Lost Data

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Ed Caplan W3CC wrote:

> 1) All spots are grayed out.
>
> 2) I an not get any reports
>
> 3) Can not get Country in window
>
> 4  Got an error message on spot window  "not an HTML/TEXT"

Exit DX4WIN.  Delete your SAVE\DX4WIN.CFG.  Start DX4WIN.   File |
Preferences then File | Merge

See if that fixes the problem.

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Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us
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[Dx4win] Lost Data

[Ed Caplan]

I am using DX4WIN V 8.05 on my laptop. My config information disappeared from 
preferences, I reloaded it from a saved file. I have the following issues:


1) All spots are grayed out.

2) I an not get any reports

3) Can not get Country in window

4  Got an error message on spot window  "not an HTML/TEXT"


I would be grateful for any assistance


Ed  W3CC
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[Dx4win] Lost data

[Richard L. King]

I have been having an intermittent problem with DX4WIN V5.03 for a few 
months now that is potentially serious.

Occasionally when I save the database or close DX4WIN before shutdown, I 
get an error writing the log file during the saving of my log data. When 
this happens, usually the last 80% of my log entries are lost with each 
lost entry replaced with some specific data in certain fields.

In the BAND area I get xxxm. In the TIME area I get . And in the 
MODE area it is always AM. There may be other fields that are always 
changed to a constant, but those are the fields that I remember. This all 
gets repeated for about 60,000 QSOs and the real data is lost.

When the failure occurs, a correct log file cannot be found anywhere on my 
harddrive. What saves me is that I usually do a daily backup on a zip file 
that I update every night only before I shutdown. I use a stand-alone batch 
file to execute this backup.

My log file has 87,000 entries in it and it would be a disaster for me to 
lose that much DXing data. After the failure and I reload the log file, the 
log data is correct up to about the first 20,000 entries. But the last 
60,000 QSOs are lost being replaced with the data I mentioned above.

I don't know if there is an answer for this problem. But I do think that 
everyone should have a regular, independent method of backing up their log 
file.

Any suggestions? The problem really got scary yesterday when I had some 
problems reading my backup file on the zip drive. I eventually recovered 
the database though. Whew!

73, Richard

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[Dx4win] Lost data

[VA3MW]

Richard

What OS are you running this on?

If it is XP or Win2k have you checked the event log to see if there are disk
failures.

On the surface, it sounds like it not a DX4Win issue.

Tell us more.  Have you tried running this on another computer to see if you
get the same errors?  You might want to send the log to somone else and see
if they have the same problem.

How big is the log file?

Mike Walker VA3MW
DX Cluster telnet://portcredit.net:41112

- Original Message -
From: Richard L. King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: dx4win@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:45 AM
Subject: [Dx4win] Lost data


 I have been having an intermittent problem with DX4WIN V5.03 for a few
 months now that is potentially serious.

 Occasionally when I save the database or close DX4WIN before shutdown, I
 get an error writing the log file during the saving of my log data. When
 this happens, usually the last 80% of my log entries are lost with each
 lost entry replaced with some specific data in certain fields.

 In the BAND area I get xxxm. In the TIME area I get . And in the
 MODE area it is always AM. There may be other fields that are always
 changed to a constant, but those are the fields that I remember. This all
 gets repeated for about 60,000 QSOs and the real data is lost.

 When the failure occurs, a correct log file cannot be found anywhere on my
 harddrive. What saves me is that I usually do a daily backup on a zip file
 that I update every night only before I shutdown. I use a stand-alone
batch
 file to execute this backup.

 My log file has 87,000 entries in it and it would be a disaster for me to
 lose that much DXing data. After the failure and I reload the log file,
the
 log data is correct up to about the first 20,000 entries. But the last
 60,000 QSOs are lost being replaced with the data I mentioned above.

 I don't know if there is an answer for this problem. But I do think that
 everyone should have a regular, independent method of backing up their log
 file.

 Any suggestions? The problem really got scary yesterday when I had some
 problems reading my backup file on the zip drive. I eventually recovered
 the database though. Whew!

 73, Richard

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[Dx4win] Lost Data.

[Jack Shirley]

I have used Win 95, 98se, and WinXP pro.
I have lost data ( when forgetting to hit alt-s after my last QSO entry) =
 when power is lost and the computer reboots more than once. This has =
happened on different computers and different versions of DX4WIN.
On multiple reboots, it seems to loose the QSOs since the last ALt-S =
save.


N8DX





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[Dx4win] Lost data

[VA3MW]

Richard

I don't think that there is an event log on win98SE.

The fact that you have tried it on another machine and it hasn't failed is
good news.

I can recommend the following:

Make sure that all maintenance available from Microsoft is installed
I really think that the hard drive of the drive controller is going south..
Is it an Ultra DMA hard drive without and Ultra DMA cable? (this problem
drove me nuts for about 3 months)
It may be a power supply problem.  I learned the hard way that computer
power supplies are not created equal.  Look very very closely at the power
ratings.  Some of the wattages are combined.
Can you get a new harddrive and do a total reinstall of Win98SE (I highly
recommend XP Home--the software is almost 4 years newer than Win98).  Also,
with an event log, it makes it easier to track problems like this.  I also
think that you will find XP faster than Win98SE.

Unfortunately, there isn't an easy solution here.  Your just going to have
to keep trying things until it goes away.

73... Mike VA3MW


- Original Message -
From: Richard L. King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: VA3MW [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx4win@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Lost data


 My follow-up comments are below.

 At 10:42 1/22/03 -0500, VA3MW wrote:
 Richard
 
 What OS are you running this on?

 I should have mentioned this before. I am running Win98 SE on a Dell
450mHz
 machine using 352M of RAM. The computer is on a UPS and isn't affected by
 power glitches.


 If it is XP or Win2k have you checked the event log to see if there are
disk
 failures.

 Can this be done on Win98? If so I would need a little guidance.


 On the surface, it sounds like it not a DX4Win issue.

 This is probably true.


 Tell us more.  Have you tried running this on another computer to see if
you
 get the same errors?  You might want to send the log to somone else and
see
 if they have the same problem.

 I have run it briefly on my wife's machine, Win2K on a Dell 1.2Gig
machine.
 No failures there.

 But that doesn't mean much since I use DX4WIN everyday on my machine and
do
 many, many saves and shutdowns without failure anyway. The problem is
 highly intermittent.

 No my wife won't let me have her computer to use permanently. She's no
 dummy. It would be very hard to move computers around anyway in the
hamshack.


 How big is the log file?

 The log file is about 6.6MB large. I am still hunting for some old
computer
 logs and I am sure I can get it to 100K QSOs soon.


 Mike Walker VA3MW
 DX Cluster telnet://portcredit.net:41112

 As you said this is probably not a DX4WIN issue. It is more a
how-to-backup
 and recover issue.

 73, Richard

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