That is odd. The config that you have Scott appears to be correct. Should
autosave every 20 Qso's with no warnings.
The journal should be named xxx ADI and it always seems to be there for me.
Perhaps a cache issue as you stated.
Jay WS7I
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM, (K7ZO) Scott Tuthill <k7zo@cableone.net>wrote:
> In last weekend's All Asia SSB contest I came as close to totally losing a
> log file as I ever have in 12+ years of using WriteLog. NK7U and I were
> doing a casual multi-op with a network of 4 PC's running Version 10.79
> under
> Windows XP. Friday evening the station suffered a momentary power loss that
> caused all the PC's to shut down. When we rebooted them, on three of the
> four PC's, the log file had no QSO's and was thus in the state the last
> time
> I manually saved it before the contest started, there was no journal file
> of
> QSO's to recover, etc. Luckily, on one of the PC's the log file was intact
> and we were able to recover and continue -- but this was a pretty scary
> experience and I have never had anything like it before.
>
> I have all four PC's and WriteLog configured the same. Relative to log
> saving I have these INI file settings in the [CONFIGURATION] section:
> * AutoSaveCount = 20
> * QsoWarningCount = -1
>
> I thought what this did was to automatically save the log's every 20 QSO's
> and suppress the display of any warning messages. I figured if the log was
> being saved, let's not bother the operators with messages.
>
> But, with this experience I want to sort out what happened and why and make
> any adjustments so that we don't run into this again. We have never had
> this
> problem before and WriteLog has always recovered gracefully from similar
> situations in the past.
>
> So, questions to all:
> * It looks like the log was in fact not being automatically saved and the
> journal file process did not seem to be working. Any thoughts and ideas? I
> was looking in the default MyDocuments/WriteLog/contest directory for the
> files. This is where they should be, right?
> * Are these INI file settings doing what I think they are, or have I
> misinterpreted their effect? Did the QsoWarningCount=-1 actually turn off
> the AutoSave process?
> * Could the PC configuration been at fault - thinking that WriteLog
> AutoSaved the file, but the PC cached it in RAM rather than write it to
> disk, and then when the power dropped the file was lost? If so, is there a
> way to change a setting somewhere on the PC to stop this?
>
> Thanks for any advice and thoughts.
>
> Scott/K7ZO
>
>
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