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+ AA6YQ comments below

After a catastrophic computer failure, I'm now reconstructing DXLab after reinstalling Win 11. Prior to the crash, I had two user fields with drop down choices in DXKeeper. I'm trying to re-create them and can't seem to get them to work. I created a list for each one and saved them in Notepad txt files. I then went to User Items in the DXK config window and clicked on the Set List button with Style set to List. The expected window opened and I saw my text files. When I opened them and clicked on the Load button, I expected to see the drop downs in each field in the log window, but both fields remained blank. I must have done (or not done) something, but I don't see what went wrong. Can someone help?

+ Restore the Workspace you directed the Launcher to create before your computer failed onto your recovered system, and then direct the Launcher to restore your DXLab application settings from it. See

"Recovering from a Catastrophic Failure" in



73,

Dave, AA6YQ

+ AA6YQ comments below

After a catastrophic computer failure, I'm now reconstructing DXLab after reinstalling Win 11. Prior to the crash, I had two user fields with drop down choices in DXKeeper. I'm trying to re-create them and can't seem to get them to work. I created a list for each one and saved them in Notepad txt files. I then went to User Items in the DXK config window and clicked on the Set List button with Style set to List. The expected window opened and I saw my text files. When I opened them and clicked on the Load button, I expected to see the drop downs in each field in the log window, but both fields remained blank. I must have done (or not done) something, but I don't see what went wrong. Can someone help?

+ I assume that you don't have a Workspace containing your settings. Please review



+ Following its advice will significantly speed your next recovery.

+ Your assumption that the file format for user item definitions is a simple list is not correct. DXKeeper enables you to save your user item definitions to a file so that you can maintain multiple sets of such definitions, and quickly switch among them by loading one of the files you saved. It is not intended to enable you to create such definitions with a text editor, which is why the file format is not documented in



+ You must specify your user item definitions using the textboxes, selectors, and checkboxes on the Configuration window's "User Items" tab.

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Dave, AA6YQ

+ AA6YQ comments below

Thanks, Dave.
Actually, I have been able to restore my prior workspace from where it was saved to an external drive.

+ Great!

When it came back, everything looked OK EXCEPT that the DXKeeper user fields came back with captions but no drop down lists, so I'm still at a loss as to how to re-create the lists.

+ For a user-defined item whose Style selector is set to List, click the "Set list" button to the right of the Style selector. In the "Select file from which to load a list of values..." window, navigate to the folder containing the file of list entries, and double-click on the entry for that file.

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Dave, AA6YQ

+ AA6YQ comments below

Well, I finally got the user fields to show BUT now there's another problem. The same list item in each drop down list is now shown in every for every contact in the log.

+ I don't understand what you mean. Please describe an example.

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Dave, AA6YQ

+ AA6YQ comments below

OK. Here's what I see. I'll use one of the fields as an example.
The user field has a drop down list of my amplifiers. For years, I've selected the specific amplifier used used during operating sessions. After the crash and reload of the operating system (Win 11) and last saved log before the crash, and after some struggle (see my prior posts, above), I finally got the drop down list of amplifiers to appear in User Field 1. The problem is that all contacts in the log now show the same amplifier (KPA1500), including all contacts going back to my very first contact as a Novice in 1959, when, obviously, I used no amplifier. The default setting for the field should be "None" or the field should be empty. The .mdb log file is correct but the display in the log user field is incorrect. With thousands of contacts over many years, fixing this individually is out of the question, so I'm wondering whether this is even remediable. If I need to start over, how can I wipe the fields clean and re-configure them to represent accurately what's in the .mdb file?

+ If the user-defined items in the .mdb file are correct, which I assume you know because you used Microsoft Access or equivalent to check, then

1. there's nothing to "fix individually"

2. my guess is that the entries is your amplifier list don't exactly match what's logged in the user-defined item of each QSO.

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Dave, AA6YQ