Hi folks,
This is my first post here, but I have been using cqrlog for over a year now and have about 3000 qso's split between my home base (Ontario) and portable operations (Nunavut).
I'm looking to move the home operations to a different computer. I keep both logs as well as third log from my days as KC0IGY on that computer. In moving the VE3KTB/VY0 and KC0IGY logs over, I did it via a conversion to adif.
So, is that the best way to move the logs over to a new installation on the "new" computer, or is there some possiblity to just copy over the database directory or something like that? Mostly I worry about losing things like the qso comments, qth profiles etc in carrying out conversions between formats.
Thanks!
73,
Pierre VE3KTB/KC0IGY sometimes /VY0
Tue, 2015-01-20 22:33
#1
Moving to another computer
Hi Pierre,
ADIF will work, but it doesn't have all data e.g. configuration, long note (CTRL+N in New QSO window). It does include QTH profiles.
If you want to move whole cqrlog data files, just copy ~/.config/cqrlog directory to another computer. The ~ means your home directory.
73 Petr, OK2CQR
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https://ok2cqr.com
Hi Petr,
Thank-you for the information. It worked perfectly.
For the benefit of anyone looking for specific steps, what I did was to tar up the directory and the scp it over to the other computer. So on the originating computer
cd ~/.config
tar cf cqrlog.tar cqrlog
then on the new one
cd ~/.config
mv cqrlog cqrlog_empty
mkdir temp
back to the the originating computer
scp cqrlog.tar user@computer:~/.config/temp
back to the new machine:
cd temp
tar xvf cqrlog.tar
mv cqrlog ..
the creating of the temp directory and the renaming of the cqrlog directory are not really necessary, but they are steps I take for those days in which my fingers move faster than my brain :-) Makes the remedial clean-up much easier!
Also, I'd like to express my appreciation for your having created an extremely useful program! It does nicely when I'm running my modest pileup from NA-008.
73,
Pierre VE3KTB
Pierre Fogal
VE3KTB/KC0IGY
on Arch Linux