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How Did I Mess Up My 796D?

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What did I screw up so I don’t do this again? Don't know if it's software releated or the scanner? Tonight, I opened up my Butel ARC250 Pro software for my Uniden 796D and my Freq. MHZ column is replaced with the channel number. i.e. Channel 901 reads 0901.000 and the Tag Column reads 0859.4875 which should be in the Freq. column. All my System Settings in the Trunk Configuration has been lost. All the Control Channel codes are gone, Activity ID check marks are gone, etc. What in the world did I do? Also, I had the backup configuration set. Is it possible to recover my old settings? If so, where are they stored? The radio itself is still okay. Could I do a “READ DATA FROM SCANNER” and retrieve my settings this way. I don’t want to do this yet, though until I know what I did wrong to get me in this situation. I’m not going to touch anything until I hear from you guys.
Thanks for the help.
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ronmicha said:
What did I screw up so I don’t do this again? Don't know if it's software releated or the scanner? Tonight, I opened up my Butel ARC250 Pro software for my Uniden 796D and my Freq. MHZ column is replaced with the channel number. i.e. Channel 901 reads 0901.000 and the Tag Column reads 0859.4875 which should be in the Freq. column. All my System Settings in the Trunk Configuration has been lost. All the Control Channel codes are gone, Activity ID check marks are gone, etc. What in the world did I do? Also, I had the backup configuration set. Is it possible to recover my old settings? If so, where are they stored? The radio itself is still okay. Could I do a “READ DATA FROM SCANNER” and retrieve my settings this way. I don’t want to do this yet, though until I know what I did wrong to get me in this situation. I’m not going to touch anything until I hear from you guys.
Thanks for the help.
Ron
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The 796 memory should be ok, I'd just read the data again to ARC250.
 
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But What Caused It?

But what caused the error in the first place? Did I do something wrong or is it a software problem? I'm going to try to READ DATÅ from the scanner but I had programmed a bunch of stuff the night before so I guess that's lost. I'm still puzzled as to how to get the "backup" file that the Butel software saves.
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I'm still puzzled as to how to get the "backup" file that the Butel software saves.
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The backup files are usually located in the Program Files/ARC250PRO/backup, but you can confirm by going to Set-up, Software Options, Backup. To restore, use the File Open, and click on the folder containing the latest back-up. Sounds like you might have accidently done a copy/paste into the wrong columns, but just a guess. That is what backups are for.
 
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