[WT-support] Lost data

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:35 AM, <marcelo at alternex.com.br> wrote:

> In the first morning of the WPX Contest this weekend I started having some
> trouble with my computer, and received a message that the resources were
> low. I decided to restart the machine, closed all other programs and when I
> exited win-test I got some message of a failed save operation due to low
> system resources.
>
> After rebooting, when I loaded win-test my log file was empty. The file
> was trhere but it had no qsos. I had to quit the contest.
>
> Is there any chance to recover the log? Is there any other copy of the
> file on the machine?
>
Marcelo,

Sorry to hear that this happened.  Did the hard disk get full?

It is likely that the log file is there on the disk, just saved in a
different directory or with a different name.  The easiest way to find it
is to open a Windows Command Prompt (Start | Run | Cmd.exe), then enter the
following two commands exactly as shown:

   1. cd \
   2. dir *wpx*.wt4 /a /s /p /od

This lists *all* WT4 files containing "WPX" in the name, even in hidden
directories, and it searches all sub-directories, pausing after a full
screen, and ordering the list by date (within a directory), newest at the
bottom.  Look for .WT4 files with 2012 in the timestamp.

73,
Bob, N6TV
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