Just got an email from Allan GW4VPX alerting me to this problem - all fixed now.
Rob
was working last night.
Trying now itās saying
Hi Steve,
Iāve sent a direct message to Rob to see if he can sort this out - the last time it was the data load that had failed.
73 Ed.
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thanks Ed.
All being well I shall be activating this weekend, hopefully sat and sunday.
Other half of the team canāt come so I am the sole packhorse 
Well, this is getting embarassing - this is happening too often. It seems that my hosting company are regularly doing something on the server at precisely the same time in the morning as the data import is scheduled. Iāll have to change the scheduled timeā¦ 
Sorry for this - all running again!
Rob
Same happening for me. The problem is that some of the scheduled operations use to happen when there was nobody doing any SOTA stuff. Now we have effectively 24/7 SOTA there is always someone doing something. I may have to schedule a 20min downtime each day when nobody can connect so that backups etc. can run uninterrupted.
It reminds me of the time when a company i worked for wanted a DOS-based real-time employee-time-and-attendance system which could never have a down-time. There was just the tiny problem of when to schedule a backup (which required that nobody use the program during the backup period) in a firm working 24/7. Crashes in the system at the backup time didnāt happen too often, but when they did, I had to hide under the desk for a few days until tempers cooled. Could never happen these days, of courseā¦ 
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Thanks Rob - just confirming all fine from my side now.
73 Ed.
Yeah 24/7 systems running DOS - in those days I donāt think so ā¦ Although today with clustered Virtual machines and under the bonnet hidden backups, it is possible, even when running DOS - or even Windoze! By the way my upgrade to Windows 10 went so well, Iām shocked!
Well, it is logical - if it never has downtime, a backup will never be needed 
thanks for fixing it
BTW, while you are āhereā I did want to say what a good tool that is. very nicely done.
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Isnāt there a āsafeā update sequence with atomic commit? At worst we might expect this kind of interruption to lead to a missed update, not a situation in which you have neither the new data nor the old.
Why do you need downtime? MSSQL supports online backups which are guaranteed to be point-in-time consistent.
Youāre absolutely right, and Iām actually in the process of rewriting the import algorithm, which has not changed since I first wrote it a couple of years back when I started to write the first test versions of the SMP. It ran OK for a long while, so it was a case of āif it aināt broke, donāt fix itā. Well, that evidently no longer appliesā¦ 
New problem: now it hangs at āLoading map, please wait ā¦ā.
The map is so great my SOTA activity is now entirely dependent on it :). A big thanks to all the people involved !
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āIt never rains but it poursā (or is that āporesā or āpauseā or āpawsā?) - this time the problem seems to be a file association problem. Everything looks in order, but Iām afraid youāll have to wait until I can manage to get home at about 15:00 UTC today to fix thisā¦
Sorry for the continuing saga - it can only get better!
Rob
OK, I was right - it was a file-link problem. Fixed nowā¦
Rob
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Sorry Rob ! A new problem, when I select any association or region I get the following pop-up:
After pressing OK, however, everything still seems to work (however the screen showing the location of the different regions within the association is not displayed).
Ed.
Another linked file problemā¦ But, hey: the pop-ups come free with the product!
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Thatās a typical mistake of those ingenuous (or was it ingenious ?) software developers. By giving problem dialogs names like āReferenceErrorā everybody is able to spot an error in the software and can raise his finger.
If the problem dialogs would instead be given names like āAdd-on information, only accessible to premium accountsā nobody will complain, as he would be in fear to be charged for the extra costs for using this premium account feature. 
73 Stephan, DM1LE
PS: Today recovering from slightly sore palms, caused by yesterdays brachiating along this extra long radial along the Taja-Kante (up to OE/TI-618) 
Stephan, youāre giving me ideas thereā¦ 
Rob