Installation and Upgrading

Here are some common questions and answers installation of LOGic 6 and upgrading from previous versions. See also LOGic 6 FAQ for LOGic 5 users.

The dog ate my LOGic CD.  My hard disk crashed.  I reinstalled LOGic, but can't get past the license screen.  Please help!

You need to order your own copy of LOGic!

But, if you are a legitimate customer, and have misplaced your CD-ROM or have any other installation problems related to installation, please contact us.  We can ask you a few questions and get you into LOGic without the CD.

I got a new computer.  Can I copy the setup and other changes I made to LOGic to my new computer without having to re-enter my setup parameters?

Sure.  First, install LOGic on the new computer from the CD-ROM just as you normally would.  You cannot just copy the old LOGic directory and expect it to run, since files have to be installed in windows\system and registered.

After LOGic is installed and running, You can copy the whole LOGic 5 folder from the old computer to the new one, overwriting the new LOGic5 folder.

Note that you will experience errors if the new computer is lacking hardware that LOGic uses on the old computer.  For example, suppose that you had an Icom on COM12 of your old computer.  Your new computer does not have COM12.  LOGic will complain that it there is no COM12 when you start it.  Just go to rig setup and specify the proper port.

If you want to copy only certain things, here is a summary of the files to copy:

• The .INI files contain most of the setup entered in tools/setup.
  
• The lists of valid values are in logdata\lists.*
  
• The prefixes are in data\prefix.*
  
• The radio memories are in logdata\radiomem.*
  
• The reports are in the REPORT folder, and are named whatever you named them.  Note that each report has two files--log.rep and log.fpt for example.
  
• Log screens are in the LOGDATA\LOGFORMS folder, and are named whatever you named them,
  
• The log data is in logdata\log*.*

After copying, do a CLEAN just to be safe.

Note that if you use CD/R to copy files from one computer to another, the read-only bit will be set.  LOGic will give an error "cannot update cursor".  Be sure to remove the read-only status of all files.

If you have Windows XP, Right-click the LOGic  folder, and clear the READ-ONLY checkbox. When asked, tell it you want to APPLY CHANGES TO FOLDER, SUBFOLDERS, AND FILES.

If you have some earlier version of Windows, use the DOS command prompt. CD into the LOGIC folder, then type 

ATTRIB -R *.* /S