Re: [Dx4win] Lost Data
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. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us __ 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] Lost Data
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 __ 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] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Dx4win] Lost data
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]>; 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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
[Dx4win] Lost Data.
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 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ---
[Dx4win] Lost data
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: 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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > Dx4win mailing list > Dx4win@mailman.qth.net > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win >
