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Do you hate having to gather up all your saved ADIF files from multiple JTDX or WSJT-X installs so you can import to your logging program?

I love to experiment and trial new version of WSJT-X and JTDX, most recently a variant called JTDX-Improved (worth a google search) and because of this I have multiple folders where an ADIF file might get stored, which is a real pain in the ar$e.

DOS / Windows like linux has the ability to create symbolic links in the file system folders, think of these as pointers to where the real file is.  In this case I have these 'pointers' or symbolic links in each of the JTDx / WSJT-X folders that point to a master ADIF file.

to create the links, you will need a list of all the installed copies of the software and select a single destination file that you then import to your log program.  The command to create a symbolic link is called 'mlink' in the Windows world and you can either do it one at a time with a command like this:

Code:

mklink "C:\Users\vk5pj\AppData\Local\WSJT-X - V2.7600\wsjtx_log.adi" "C:\ham_radio\ADIF-FILES\wsjtx_log.adi"

or you can put many lines into a BATCH file and store all your needs there, you can run the Batch file multiple times with no ill effects.

Code:

mklink "C:\Users\vk5pj\AppData\Local\WSJT-X - V2.7600\wsjtx_log.adi" "C:\ham_radio\ADIF-FILES\wsjtx_log.adi"

mklink "C:\Users\vk5pj\AppData\Local\WSJT-X - V2.7610\wsjtx_log.adi" "C:\ham_radio\ADIF-FILES\wsjtx_log.adi"

mklink "C:\Users\vk5pj\AppData\Local\WSJT-X - 910\wsjtx_log.adi" "C:\ham_radio\ADIF-FILES\wsjtx_log.adi"

mklink "C:\Users\vk5pj\AppData\Local\JTDX\wsjtx_log.adi" "C:\ham_radio\ADIF-FILES\wsjtx_log.adi"

mklink "C:\Users\vk5pj\AppData\Local\JTDX - 7610\wsjtx_log.adi" "C:\ham_radio\ADIF-FILES\wsjtx_log.adi"

mklink "C:\Users\vk5pj\AppData\Local\JTDX - 7600\wsjtx_log.adi" "C:\ham_radio\ADIF-FILES\wsjtx_log.adi"

mklink "C:\Users\vk5pj\AppData\Local\JTDX - 7600-impr\wsjtx_log.adi" "C:\ham_radio\ADIF-FILES\wsjtx_log.adi"

mklink "C:\Users\vk5pj\AppData\Local\JTDX - 7610-impr\wsjtx_log.adi" "C:\ham_radio\ADIF-FILES\wsjtx_log.adi"

do not be confused by seemingly complicated folder names yours will be a bit simpler as I use some long names in my config setups.

This gives me one MASTER ADIF file located at : C:\ham_radio\ADIF-FILES\wsjtx_log.adi  that I tell my log program to import.

Now one important note, before you go to create the links in each folder, you MUST gather up / MOVE all the original wsjt_log.adi files as the symbolic link cannot be overwrite a real file if still there.