Good advice. Remember, run POST on a DIFFERENT computer. Don't
write to that disk! Don't boot from it. :-)
73,
Mark
Mark Bailey wrote:
> Good advice. Remember, run POST on a DIFFERENT computer. Don't
> write to that disk! Don't boot from it. :-)
>
> 73,
>
> Mark
>
> J. Edward (Ed) Muns wrote:
>
>> First of all, J, thanks from 616 of us for the NT mult!
>>
>> You should have most of your log in the 'logback.dat' file so be sure
>> and do
>> not lose that. Make a copy of that file and then run POST on it.
>> Next, the
>> ss05cw.rst file is unknown to me but since it is slightly larger than
>> your
>> backup file, I wonder if that is your full log somehow. Again, make a
>> copy
>> of it and then see if it is your log. You may have to rename the copy to
>> log.dat, but as Mark said earlier, avoid writing on the disk where these
>> current files are stored. Just read the files and copy onto a floppy or
>> something else that you can then look at as I've suggested above.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Ed - W0YK
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: trlog-bounces@contesting.com
>>> [mailto:trlog-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of J. Allen
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:58 PM
>>> To: trlog@contesting.com
>>> Subject: [Trlog] I really did it this time VY1JA
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello, all.
>>>
>>> SS05CW was quite a bit of work. I droped out dead tired at about
>>> 00:00 with 616 QSOs in the log.
>>>
>>> Today, I looked at the files in my SS05CW folder and I have only
>>> the temp log with about 5 QSOs in it. The counter still shows
>>> 617 as the next QSO, but both TR and POST each only give me that
>>> one handful.
>>>
>>> The directory looks like this:
>>> logback.dat 27k
>>> ss05cw.cfg 1k
>>> ss05cw.dat 1k
>>> ss05cw.rst 29k
>>> ss05cw.tmp 1k
>>>
>>> All that work is just gone and I do not know what I did to it. I
>>> have been using TR for years now, and it is reliable.
>>>
>>> My regular computer died and I did CQP on this same backup laptop
>>> where it worked fine. I had turned the save to floppy function
>>> on, with a formatted blank floppy in the laptop, but nothing was
>>> on it at the end of the contest either.
>>>
>>> Any ideas of possible causes or what I need to do to avoid this
>>> in the future?
>>>
>>> J.
>>> VY1JA
>>>
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