[WriteLog] FW: A Learning Experience in the WAE CW Contest

Mon Aug 14 16:57:57 EDT 2023

There is Indeed an .ini file.
It is your Callsign. Ini
So in my case w3kb.ini
There are various Sections of the INI file such as [CONFIGURATION] or [ENTRY} in that one file.
So in this particular case (as noted below) the AutoSaveCount=1 parameter went in the [ENTRY] section of the overall w3kb.ini file
Keith W3KB
-----Original Message-----
From: WriteLog <writelog-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of robert beaudoin
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2023 4:24 PM
To: writelog at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] A Learning Experience in the WAE CW Contest
     Good Afternoon Keith and Jamie
         I believe there is no more writelog.ini ??  so what file did you guys  put  AutoSave in ?
                 73   BoB WA1FCN
On 8/14/2023 2:11 PM, Keith Beebe W3KB wrote:
> Jamie NS3T
>> Highly appreciate that information.
>> In looking into the current HELP section of Writelog: the AutoSaveCount parameter should now be in the [ENTRY] part of the .INI file and Not in the [CONFIGURATION] Section.
>> I took your advice to look into it and ***There is indeed a note that 
> as of Version 12.29 if such a parameter was in the [CONFIGURATION] 
> Section it is removed and now placed in the [ENTRY] section***
>> I am running the very latest Version 12.73F.
>> Therefore I have simply added In the [ENTRY] section of the .ini file:
>> [ENTRY]
> AutoSaveCount=1
>> Let’s see how this works out.
>> Thanks !
>> Keith W3KB
>>> From: Jamie Dupree <jamie.dupree at verizon.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2023 10:01 AM
> To: Keith Beebe W3KB <keith at w3kb.net>; WriteLog Reflector 
> <writelog at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] A Learning Experience in the WAE CW Contest
>> Keith -
>> You can set Writelog to save your log after every 'x' QSO, so you don't have to rely on the journal file. I have my log save after every QSO, just in case. It is done in the background, automatically, and does not cause any problems with my operating system.
>> This is an old item that I saved on how to do it. You should check to 
> see if this has changed over the years
>> - Paste this line into the [Configuration] section of the writelog.ini:
>> AutoSaveCount=1
>> This ensures the log will be saved after every entry. If you don't want it to save that often, just increase the number.
>> 73 Jamie NS3T
>>> On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 09:29:41 AM EDT, Keith Beebe W3KB <keith at w3kb.net<mailto:keith at w3kb.net>> wrote:
>>>> I am a WriteLog contesting software user.
>> I was operating in the weekend's Worked All Europe (WAE) CW contest and had 110 QSOs and 25 QTCs (Messages) as of early Saturday morning. I had planned to operate all weekend.
>> All of a sudden there were multiple electrical power "Blips" (rapid On-Off) that happened. That "crashed" the computer logging the contest.
>> When I got back in operation I noticed my 110 contacts were still in the log but my QTC's were not. What's going on?
>> I had to drop out of the WAE CW contest because my QTC's were gone and the Writelog software now thought I was back to QTC #1. Could not realistically send another QTC because the content tracking of the specific messages and their composition plus the QTC numbers were gone.
>> Writelog does indeed have a safety mechanism for such situations in that it has what they call a "journal" backup file in case things like power outages happen. It makes a journal of the log during a contest.
>> However, here's the part of that operation that I missed. "These changes (QTCs) are Not written to the journal file and Cannot be recovered if you exit or crash without saving your log."
>> For this specific contest Writelog does not automatically backup QTCs during the logging process. It recommends periodically Manually saving the log during the contest. Well, I didn't do that and of course along comes the power "blips".
>> I should have looked closer to Writelog's setup instructions for this specific contest.
>> At least I now know what happened and now know what to do in the future specifically for the WAE CW contest.
>> Keith W3KB
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