I have the exact same observations and problems here.
Duplication of edited QSO's, and the next QSO number
missing. After the test SDI would not load the full log, and
when I checked the log, I found the above.
I still need to look through the log in full and fill in the
missing QSO's.
OZ4O/Ole
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martyn Johnson" <Martyn.Johnson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: <sd-user@contesting.com>
Cc: <Martyn.Johnson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: [SD-User] SDI problems
> Unfortunately I have to report that SDI 11.33 went quite seriously
> wrong on me in the IOTA contest, and I don't know why. I'm not a
> "serious" entrant, so it's not a major problem, but I thought I should
> report it.
>
> All was OK on Saturday; logged my QSOs, took my backups and shut down
> for the night.
>
> When I fired up SDI on Sunday, it complained that the IOTA05.ALL file
> had been edited (which it hadn't) and that QSOs were out of order.
> Worse than that, there were QSOs missing, and even the current serial
> number was wrong. I poked around and spotted a file called IOTA05%ALL
> (i.e. percent instead of dot) and found that this contained the
> missing QSOs! I put the .ALL file back together by hand and got a log
> that SDI was happy with, and carried on.
>
> After the contest all seemed superficially well, but on printing the
> log I noticed that my serial 030 was duplicated and 031 was missing.
> Then I remembered that I had had to correct the callsign of 030 from
> within SDI, and it appeared that what had happened was that the
> updated data for 030 had overwritten 031. There was another QSO
> missing which I couldn't explain.
>
> Fortunately I had turned on auditing, and all of the "lost"
> information was in that file. I think the situation would have been
> unrecoverable without that. Personally I think that AUDIT should be on
> by default.
>
> Any ideas on why it went wrong on me?
>
> BTW, as with SD on earlier occasions, rig control was picking up the
> frequency correctly but not tracking band changes.
> --
> Martyn M1MAJ
>
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