[WriteLog] how I fixed my 160 log file issue

[Steve Jackson]

Bill

You are certainly correct; it's not the intended function, but clearly you and I (and probably others) have independently experienced the error.  

Perhaps the program author(s) will look into this, although I don't know how they can fix what they can't recreate.  Others did not have the problem.

If you had made any log entries with the erroneous exchange format (as I did), and you wanted to recover the QSO records and put them into a correctly-formatted log, making the fix in the way I described might be easier than hand-re-entering all the contact records.  If you're being more casual about the contest or had no records to save, then, no worries.

I don't believe there's an easier fix, if you already have a contest log partly created.

Well, back to my wet-noodle @ 100W S&P effort.  

73 es gl
Steve KZ1X/4

----- Original Message ----
From: Bill Parry <bparry at rgv.rr.com>
To: Steve Jackson <kz1x at yahoo.com>; WriteLog at contesting.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:22:59 PM
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] how I fixed my 160 log file issue


That's a little too complicated for me, particularly since I am not
 really
competing in the contest. This is clearly not an outcome that is
 intended by
the folks at Writelog, and I have never had this happen before. There
 has
got to be an easier fix than that. If I needed to get it to work
 properly
for tonight, I would try it. Fortunately I'm not in too much of a
 hurry.

If the program has become unstable maybe we need to do a reinstall or
something?

Bill, W5VX

-----Original Message-----
From: writelog-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jackson
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:32 PM
To: WriteLog at contesting.com
Subject: [WriteLog] how I fixed my 160 log file issue

I fiddled around, trying to see why the program kept creating an
incorrectly-formatted exchange window ... after several attempts, the
program correctly opened a new log in the correct format.



Then, I exported the erroneous log from last night, into a .csv file,
and used Excel to edit it.  

Next, I used a utility (written by KH2D) 
that makes ADIF files from .csv files.



Then, finally, I imported that file into the new log session.



Voila!  It's all there now, formatted correctly, and ready to add more
 Qs
when the sun goes down!



A happy ending ...



Steve KZ1X/4



 
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