[WriteLog] FW: Web Update Data Files

[Steve Woodruff]

Hi Alan,

Just do 
1) File -> Web update data files …
2) Click the download button
3) Leave all items highlighted and click OK
4) click OK to restart WriteLog

You can also install the CTY files maintained by Jim AD1C:
http://www.country-files.com/contest/writelog/


Note that a CTY file update is not the same as a master file update.  For that you do:  
1) Setup Menu -> Super Check Partial …
2) Point to the master.dta file you wish to use.  The one saved from the Web update data files is not the same one that is found in c:\program files (x86)\writelog\programs.    The new one is saved in the C:\ProgramData\WriteLog directory and its called master.dta.  All your CTY files are found there also but they have .dat and/or .bin extensions.

Enjoy,

Steve N9OH

On October 22, 2015 at 4:05:18 PM, Alan Zack (k7acz at cox.net) wrote:

I posted this last week but no response as yet. I would like to know if my  
CTY and MASTER files are up to date before the start of the CQWWDX this  
weekend.  

TIA & 73  
Alan, K7ACZ  



-----Original Message-----  
From: WriteLog [mailto:writelog-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Alan  
Zack  
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 5:01 PM  
To: 'Writelog Reflector'  
Subject: [WriteLog] Web Update Data Files  

I just upgraded from 11.27 to 11.30. I am setting up for next weekends  
CQWWDX SSB.  

I have never understood how the WEB UPDATE DATA FILES function works.  

After setting up WL for the CQWWDX SSB I went to FILE: WEB UPDATE DATE  
FILES. The update window opens. I click on DOWNLOAD and the file window is  
populated. I leave all the files highlighted. I click OK and WL opens and  
closes. This makes me feel that all my CTY and MASTER files are now current  
and up to date.  

But when I go to C:\ProgramData\WriteLog there are no CTY files there. There  
is another zip file folder WlWebUpdate but it is dated 12/12/2014. I assume?  
I am supposed to click on this folder to open it then click on EXTRACT to  
open these files. When I do that all the CTY and MASTER files are dated in  
2014. Does WL go to the data in C:\ProgramData\WriteLog\ WlWebUpdate to find  
the CTY and MASTER files? If I just did the download why are the files dated  
in 2014?  

I remember years ago you used to have to use Jim, AD1C CTY files and  
download them to WL but I had thought the WEB UPDATE DATA FILES function did  
this all automatically. The help files do not explain how all this works.  

Can anyone enlighten me please.  

TIA & 73  
Alan, K7ACZ