[WT-support] Learning from mistakes

[Win Kriegl DK9IP/KH7CD]

Hi,

you can restore the deleted QSO line with CTRL-Z (or: edit -> restore
QSO). But this works only as long as you didn´t press "Enter" (or INS ?) 
after deleting/overwriting the original data line. If you do an 
automatic log save every 5 minutes or so, there should still be time to 
get the "old" QSO from the backup file.

73 Win DK9IP


Am 30.05.2011 21:23, schrieb SM5AJV:
> I have a similar experience...
>
> That is when you try to do a silent log (Ctrl- + ) but instead by mistake
> push Ctrl- Enter.
>
> The QSO is lost and the band map have the call. Is it possible to make this
> more foul proof? For instance don't erase QSO if there is any data in the receive
> exchange field or more important, let me recover the QSO data with Ctrl- Z.
>
> 73
> Ingo SM5AJV
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Hello allThis weekend, during this WPX I made I mistake that I need to
>> learn from.
>> I was running and somehow (I must have hit some key) the cursor was way up in the
>> log, in a past qso. I typed the call that came back to me (without checking the screen)
>> and hit the "Ins" key to send the exchange. When I heard some starnge things
>> being sent I hit Alt-W to clear everything  and put the call again. Only then I
>> looked at the screen and found I had erased a past QSO.
>> In panic I could not find a way to fix or recover the lost info, So I
>> had to fill in a dupe and go down to the entry field and log the call.
>> I thought about saving the log under a new name, but could not find how in the
>> heat of the run. So, a QSO was lost and someone will receive a Bad QSO penaly due to my
>> mistake.
>> My two questions to the WT community:
>> 1 -  is there anything I could have done to recover the erased QSO at that
>> time?
>> 2 - How do I avoid that in the future (ok, I shoud learn touch typing). Is there a
>> way to protect the log from unwanted edits?
>> Otherwise I really enjoy WT
>> Thank you all
>> Marcelo, PY1KN
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