[Trlog] I really did it this time VY1JA

[Mark Bailey]

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 at contesting.com
>>> [mailto:trlog-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of J. Allen
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:58 PM
>>> To: trlog at 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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