Logbook Pro WOES- aka Backup Backup Backup!!!

Cheechako

Cheechako

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Well, with a single click I wiped out about 3000 hours worth of monthly summaries on Logbook Pro!!

I've been using the Airline Pilot's Daily Aviation Logbook on my Palm Pilot and importing every month into Logbook Pro. Well I picked up a trip at the end of March after I already imported the monthly entries. This morning I went to re-import with the extra trip and selected the "replace existing data" option thinking it would only replace the entries I had already imported. Nope! It replaced ALL my data and my last backup was like 6 months ago. My fault for not having the program backup prior to every import! Ugh! Lesson learned!
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To add to that... Everybody sould make sure that they photocopy their logbooks every so often. I had somebody call me yesterday about getting back into flying after taking 8 or so years off, but his logbook was burned in a car accident. He was close to taking his checkride (no 8710 filled out however), but now those 50 hours may be down the drain. He's going to try to contact his old instructor for some kind of record, but I don't imagine that will help him a whole lot.
 
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Well, with a single click I wiped out about 3000 hours worth of monthly summaries on Logbook Pro!!



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Ouch!
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Sorry to hear! You have any of it in a paper logbook?
 
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At least you have a cool avatar!
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Ha Ha, thanks, just changed it!

Yeah, I had it all on paper except for the last couple months I've been using the Palm software, and that was in my palm backup directory, so it wasn't a complete loss! (how's that for a runon sentence?)

I had just put together one-line monthly aircraft summaries in my Logbook Pro since 1996 and those are all gone!
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I'll have to go back through and total it up. ugh. I guess it'll be something to do on those long overnights!
 
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Well, with a single click I wiped out about 3000 hours worth of monthly summaries on Logbook Pro!!... ... My fault for not having the program backup prior to every import! Ugh! Lesson learned!
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You can blame yourself, but make sure the software writer gets most of the blame. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for todays to allow you to accidently delete the entire file, unless you're hacking around the software. Good software (a small minority) maintains some sort of revision control, capturing ALL inputs and deletions in a separate file. Allows you to easily go back.

Before you give up all hope, snoop around in the directory which contains your data (don't make any more edits yet). There might be a backup file. (you can hunt for files that were modified within X number of days). If you find it, copy it to a floppy before you do anything else.
 
I just started looking at using Logbook Pro...it seems pretty good, however, why is it so slow? Just openning the program and then trying to enter the windowed logbook mode takes forever. I only have about 100 entries in right now...
 
There might be something wrong with your software. Mine works perfect and my computer's about 4 years old.
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I make a photocopy whenever I fill a page in my logbook, and I also use www.logshare.com as an offsite copy--a practice I HIGHLY recommend. I still need to get one of those fireproof boxes to store important papers like logbooks, passport, birth certificates, etc, in.

On the subject of computer backups, I've had a couple hard drive failures recently and can tell you to a) avoid Maxtor hard drives and b) avoid the current version of Norton Speed Disk (which wreaked havoc on a partition recently).
 
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I make a photocopy whenever I fill a page in my logbook,

[/ QUOTE ]I use my digital camera. Super easy, and easy to send copies offsite.

Maybe someday, OCR will be good enough to transform the jpg's into a spreadsheet.
 
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On the subject of computer backups, I've had a couple hard drive failures recently and can tell you to a) avoid Maxtor hard drives

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True that dude. I had a Maxtor that ate itself. Right now I'm running an IBM UltraSCSI160 drive on my XP install, and a Seagate UltraSCS160 on my Linux install. Never had a problem with either company, though I'm still thinking about a RAID setup just in case.

Cheers


John Herreshoff
 
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