[WriteLog] Lost log file -- Advice?

[WS7I]

Just tested a log in 10.88B and it autosaved the QSO's and created as well a
backup ADI file just fine.  Entered 21 QSO's and it saved the 20.  Then
reported that a journal existed (I told it no to recover) and the 20 out of
21 were there.

Only problem as I see it was it then warns you it will use same name for the
next journal which means I lost the 1 QSO as I didn't tell it to recover
it.  Would have been nice if he had more than one backup ADI file, but then
again I usually say yes recover it.

XP on that test computer.  Wonder if its a unique networking issue ?

73 Jay WS7I

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM, (K7ZO) Scott Tuthill <k7zo at 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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