[WriteLog] Re back-up

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

I just posted a nessage which basically says Mark does not blame WL at all.

He may come to this reflector to see what is being said.

I also remember a WL user who lost his file but also remember that he had
never done a SAVEAS and thus his file had no name.  Hard to save to a
nameless file.  Try it with WORD, EXCEL, ETC.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Cooper" <pcooper at guernsey.net>
To: "Writelog" <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 18:22
Subject: [WriteLog] Re back-up


> Hi again all,
>
> Well, there have been a few different answers!
>
> Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in the description.
> Yes, I know that in MOST cases, restarting WL will result in you being
asked
> if you want to include the unsaved data now, and yes that is fine, as far
as
> it goes!
> Mark N7MQ has had a PC crash, and it corrupted his CQWW04.WL file.
> Starting WL again has NOT resulted in being asked to restore the unsaved
> contacts, and anyway, the WL file was corrupt, so wouldn't open.
> Mark does not have the journal file (with extension _jou.adi) in his
> directory, and any <filename>_bck.adi file only contains the last few
> contacts since the previous Ctrl-S.
>
> Alan N5NA correctly pointed out the section from the help file about
> back-ups, but the point is that the backup is effectively the WL file
itself
> PLUS the <filename>_bck.adi file.
>
> Mark is not the first person to suffer this fate, as there was a similar
> tale a few months back, but sadly, I can't remember who it was!
>
> Mike K9MI suggested altering the INI file to read AutoSaveCount=1 but
again,
> this is saving the data to the contest.wl file.
>
> Having WL networked would seem to be one solution, but that is not
practical
> for many of us. or you could save your contest.wl file to a floppy, but
even
> then, a serious crash could still corrupt that wl file, as it did for
Mark.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if WL could give you the possibility of saving all
> contacts to - say - a specified drive as an ADIF file? In the event of a
> serious crash, you could import this ADIF file.
>
> Just to verify what I am saying, start a contest and enter a few dozen
> contacts.
> Close WL correctly, and then open the contest.wl file with Notepad.
> Now delete the first few lines of the file, effectively corrupting it. If
> you now try and restart WL you will not get the chance to back up the
> unsaved Q's, and you will have lost all your log data.
> It just comes up with INVALID FILE FORMAT, and it is as though you are
> opening a new contest from the start. OK, your contest_bck.adi file will
be
> there, but that won't be your full log!
>
>
> 73 for now
> Phil GU0SUP
>
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