First, Dave, my deepest sympathies on losing the whole log. I can't imagine
anything more frustrating.
A few suggestions just in case you haven't investigated them already....
Try Start, Documents, then click on the log name in the document list.
Perhaps the whole log, or most of it, will mysteriously appear when you do
this.
Have you searched your hard drive? I once misplaced a log in the root
directory, and found it only by accident.
Is it possible that some data recovery service or software could retrieve
it? I recall reading somewhere that deleted files are not really deleted,
and can be recovered in whole or in part. Or have I watched too many
episodes of CSI and Law and Order? :)
...And I'm going back to my station later this morning and e-mailing my
files to another computer!
73 and good luck,
Frank
wb2bxo@arrl.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave N4IG" <n4ig@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 12:40 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] Loss of All QSOs from Memory
> Hi Wayne;
>
> I lost all my log data during the CW WPX test
> this weekend. I sometimes get fat fingered during
> a contest especially if I'm sleepy. (which is
> most of the time during a contest hi). In any event
> I did something to cause the File menu to drop down.
>
> I was finishing a S&P QSO and wanted to hit enter
> to save the QSO. I sometimes do ALT W at this time for
> some strange reason but this time I must have done ALT F
> and the file menu came up. Instead of clearing the file menu
> as I usually do by clicking the mouse outside of the menu
> I must have hit the enter key to save the QSO. When the File
> menu comes drops down from a ALT F the NEW selection is highlighted.
> If you hit enter here all QSOs in memory are erased. You are given a
> chance to save the data before that happens but if you choose NO then
> all data is gone. There may be other off the wall ways to cause this
> sort of thing to happen but the bottom line is when it does there
> isn't any recovery.
>
> What I would like to see is a cumulative journal file (adi format) be
> created the first time a save from the journal file is done
> and after that every time the journal takes place the journal is
> moded to the cumulative journal file. This would provide morons
> like me who loose the LOG a way to get it back.
>
> 73 Dave N4IG
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