Folders

As your log grows, folders help you find contacts quickly. Folders give you a hierarchical file-system-style structure for organizing your contacts.

Folders

Folders organize your contacts into a tree. Auto-created folders are grouped by the award program that filled them -- a collapsible card per program, such as Parks on the Air holding the two built-in categories, Activations and Hunting, or DX Chasing and Repeater contacts listing their months directly on their own cards (they only hunt, so there is no second kind of folder to separate them from) -- while folders you create, and the ones QRZ sync creates for contacts no program claims, appear in the custom-folders section below. Opening the Logbook from the sidebar always starts you here: every card is closed and no folder is open, so the page begins as a short list of programs rather than a wall of folders -- tap a card to open it. Only one top-level card -- an award program, Unrecognized program, Other folders, or Custom folders -- opens at a time; opening another closes the one currently showing. Reopen a card during the same Logbook visit and its inner Activations or Hunting section is still as you left it; leaving Logbook resets the tree. The exception is a view folder link on a hunt or activation card, which is a deliberate request to open the logbook on that one folder.

The tree uses this device's saved folders so you can keep browsing while it syncs. Your own folder changes appear locally, and accepted changes from another device, browser, or tab arrive automatically while Hamtrax is open and connected. Moving between folders reuses the loaded logbook. See how contacts are stored for sync status and offline behavior.

The centered Auto-organized accordion above the program cards explains automatic filing for imported POTA, DX, and repeater contacts, which cannot be placed in custom folders — a rule that now holds however a contact arrives. Manually organized by you, above Custom folders, explains custom-folder suggestions and when you may need to organize contacts yourself. Both start closed and open only their explanation; the folder cards stay visible and expand separately. Favorites, Unrecognized program, and Other folders stay outside these groups. The centered Learn more button at the bottom of the folder page opens the Logbook Hygiene Rules.

Long folder lists show 25 folders per page at each level of the tree, including Favorites. Use the previous and next controls below that list to keep browsing. The folder and contact totals still count the whole section. Opening a folder through a direct link or creating a folder reveals the page that contains it.

Every card carries its own tally beneath its title, such as 3 subfolders · 12 contacts, counting the folders inside it and the contacts those folders hold. The numbers belong to that card alone -- the Parks on the Air card counts only POTA folders, even though its Activations and Hunting headings are shared with the other programs. This is the quickest way to find a contact that went somewhere you did not expect. If you were sure a hunt would file into a monthly folder but the Custom folders card is the one showing contacts, that is where to look, without opening a single card. A card for a program you have not used yet shows no numbers at all, so a starting-point card still reads as an invitation rather than a count of nothing; once a card has folders, the folder number appears even while the contact count is still zero. Long program names wrap to remain visible.

Automatic folders

Hamtrax auto-creates folders so you don't have to think about organization during operation:

• Activation folders — When you start a POTA activation, a folder is created automatically inside the Activations category. It is named using the ADIF convention: callsign@reference-YYYYMMDD (e.g., KA8H@K-1515-20201127). The date segment is UTC and records the day the activation opened, so an activation started on July 22 local time can correctly be named July 23 after UTC has crossed midnight. It is not a claim that every contact inside falls on that day — all contacts logged during that activation are saved here, including the ones you work after 0000 UTC. Imports and contacts you add by hand follow the same rule: a contact whose UTC day falls inside a recorded session joins that session's folder rather than starting a new one, even on the day after the one in the folder's name. The general importer also creates activation folders when source contacts carry valid operator-side POTA activity identity. When a recorded start time is available, the folder tree displays the park name plus the activation's local date, start time, and timezone beneath the unchanged UTC folder name. Hamtrax uses the activation park's timezone when possible, then your current Hamtrax location, and explicitly labels UTC if no local timezone can be derived. Older activation folders without a recorded start time remain date-only. Open an activation folder and the date of its first contact appears as MM/DD/YY beside Activation, followed by the park reference, on phones, tablets, and desktop. The date uses the same UTC/local display choice as the contact rows. An empty activation folder omits the date but still shows the park reference in that row. If an activation has not yet been ended, the folder shows a pulsing green Active badge in the folder tree. Select the folder and tap Resume Activation beneath the Contacts heading to jump back into the active session without returning to the Activate tab. An activation folder that already has a custom label stays under Parks on the Air with its submission identity intact. Started the activation at the wrong park? Tap the folder-name card in its header and choose Change Park from Folder options: the folder is renamed for the corrected reference and every contact inside is re-stamped to match.
• Monthly folders — Program-qualified Hunt contacts, such as a worked POTA park, a foreign DX entity, or a repeater QSO, are filed into that program's monthly folder (e.g., "March 2026") — inside the Hunting category on a program that also activates, like Parks on the Air, or directly on the card of a hunt-only program like DX Chasing or Repeater contacts. The folder is created automatically on the first qualifying contact of the month. Ordinary, domestic, or otherwise unclaimed contacts require a custom folder instead of being guessed into a month. The month is the UTC month, and the rows inside display that same UTC date by default — so an evening hunt west of UTC never shows a date that disagrees with its folder. All safely resolved activity rows share one comfortable minimum height: POTA's Activations and Hunting parents align with their unbadged child folders, while multi-line Activation details can grow when they need more room. A safely resolved hunt-only month sits directly on its program card and shows its program's emblem to the left of the title — always the same line icon that program wears in the sidebar and on the public tabs, so a folder and its program can never look like two different things: a globe for DX Chasing, a repeater tower for Repeaters. Opening it keeps that identity with Monthly DX Folder or Monthly Repeaters Folder. Missing or contradictory program identity stays unbranded rather than borrowing POTA's hunting emblem or label.
  • One exception: while exactly one activation is live, contacts you hunt are filed into that activation's folder instead — you were at a park when you worked them, so they belong in the log you submit to POTA. A green You're activating card in the hunt panel says so whenever this is happening. Each program decides this for itself: POTA hunts join as park-to-park; DX contacts join as ordinary activation QSOs (the other station isn't at a park, so the park-to-park claim would be false); and repeater contacts keep filing into their own month, because POTA doesn't count a contact made through a repeater. A contact dated outside the activation's UTC day files into its monthly folder as normal, whichever program it belongs to. See Hunting From a Park for the full rule.

That folder name is POTA's filename, not ours

Hamtrax didn't invent callsign@reference-YYYYMMDD. It is the exact format POTA asks you to submit logs under:

"callsign@parkNumber-activationDate.adi" (e.g., KA8H@US-1515-20201127.adi)

— POTA — Submitting Logs

Hamtrax stores that submission identity separately from the display label. An existing custom label does not change the activation ADIF filename, its place under its program, or its rules for accepting new contacts. That is why the date segment is UTC rather than your local day. POTA's own convention carries one date on a file that may cover more than one UTC day, which is exactly how Hamtrax treats the folder. See Exporting Contacts for the complete folder-filename rules.

Creating a manual folder

Create a custom folder from the folder tree, while filing an unclaimed contact, or on the spot while moving contacts:

• From the folder tree. Click the New folder button at the top of the custom-folders section, enter a name (e.g., "Field Day 2025" or "Club net check-ins"), and click Create.
• From Add Contact or Edit Contact. Use New beside the Folder heading for inline custom-folder creation. Name the folder, create it, and leave it selected. With Auto-organize, a contact that no installed program safely claims still needs an explicit custom destination before it can save.
• While moving contacts. Both move dialogs — from Move on a contact row and from Move to folder in Bulk Edit — offer Create folder when no other destination exists, or New beside existing custom folders. Create the destination there, then confirm Move to split out the selected contacts. See Moving contacts between custom folders.

Custom folders do not support nested subfolders, and you cannot create subfolders inside category, activation, or monthly folders.

Organizing contacts into folders

• From the Logbook's persistent Add Contact action: the full form starts with Folder → Auto-organize, and the card names the predicted destination as soon as Hamtrax knows it. You may instead choose a compatible existing folder. On an untouched form every valid destination is available; entering details greys out conflicting folders with a reason, while choosing a folder first supplies or constrains its defining fields. Auto-organize retains the same filing policy as Import and can create a missing monthly or finished historical activation folder on Save. Root and category headings cannot hold contacts. See choosing the destination.
• From a folder's Add Contact action: Each custom, monthly hunting, or activation folder opens its own folder- and program-specific quick-add card. A POTA month asks for a park; a DX month asks for a country/DXCC entity. Custom and activation cards own their exact destination; a custom folder's card refuses a contact a program claims — a station in another country, for one — with the same reason the full form shows, and keeps your draft. A monthly leaf owns the program while the contact's UTC date chooses or creates that program's destination month. See full contact form carries the draft plus any resolved target and target-owned location; unfinished target text stays unstamped until selected there. Custom/activation handoffs start with that folder selected, while monthly handoffs start on Auto-organize and retain the entered date. Tap the full form's Folder card to choose another compatible destination.
• During file import: The general importer routes contacts into activation folders, program-specific monthly folders, or custom folders. Automatic phases are marked Auto-organized, while Custom Folders — Manually organized shows contextual proposals as one row per actual folder, including separate contest years, months of chasing, and activation sessions. Each starts on Create this folder, with an editable full name and an independent I'll folder these myself (next) option. That option sends its contacts to Custom Folders — Unrecognized, where you can inspect them and choose whether to import or exclude them before choosing their folders. File-import actions open this workflow, and folders are created only when you finalize.
• After the fact: Edit a contact, choose a compatible Folder, and tap Update Contact to move that same contact. Conflicting entered or saved facts disable a destination rather than being silently rewritten. For an activation logged at the wrong park, tap its folder-name card and choose Change Park from Folder options to correct that folder and every contact in it (see Manual Logging). Custom folders also retain their separate row Move, Move to folder in Bulk Edit, and whole-folder Merge actions. See Moving contacts between custom folders.

An activation selection locks the matching MY park, accepted date, and your operating location; overnight contacts retain a compatible day within the recorded session. A monthly selection keeps Date editable within that UTC month and applies the program's Hunt requirements. A custom folder locks no field but accepts only contacts no program claims — a POTA, DX, or repeater contact stays in its program's folder — and a No Program month that QRZ sync creates, such as October 2026 - No Program, keeps Date within its UTC month, like a monthly selection. Selecting another folder never silently rewrites an entered or saved fact, and the current destination is checked again at Save. See Manual Logging for the field behavior, or Logbook Hygiene Rules for the complete rule list.

How the folder tree is sorted

Folders are grouped and sorted automatically:

• Automatic folders are grouped by award program first. Each program gets its own collapsible card. Section headings exist to tell a program's two kinds of folder apart, so a program that both activates and hunts splits its card into Activations and Hunting, while a program that only hunts has nothing to tell apart and lists its months directly on the card, with no subheading. Three programs are installed today: Parks on the Air shows both sections, while DX Chasing and Repeater contacts list their months straight under their own cards — a country can't be activated, and a repeater is a repeater you work rather than put on the air. A program's card doesn't clutter a logbook that never uses it: once your logbook has folders, a program with none contributes no card, so a POTA-only logbook shows just the Parks on the Air card, and the DX Chasing or Repeater contacts card appears with your first contact in that program. (A brand-new, empty logbook shows every installed program's card as a starting point.)
• Activations are listed newest first, by activation date.
• Monthly folders are listed newest first, by month — whether they sit under a Hunting heading or directly on their program's card.
• Custom folders are sorted by most-recent contact activity -- whichever folder you logged into most recently rises to the top. Empty custom folders fall back to creation order.
• Favorited folders are pinned in their own section above the main tree, regardless of category.

Folder operations

Tap the folder-name card in an open folder's header to open Folder options. Choose Rename Folder for a custom folder or Change Park for an activation. Monthly and other read-only folder types offer About this folder instead. For a monthly folder, this opens a notice titled with its type, such as Monthly Hunting Folder, explaining that Hamtrax organizes it automatically, so its name and details can't be edited; tap Done to close it. This does not prevent changing a contact's Date within that folder's UTC month. The same menu holds Merge for a custom folder that has contacts, and Delete Folder, both outside Bulk Edit.

Action	How
Upload to POTA	Submit a completed POTA activation after reviewing its station, park, location, contacts, and UTC dates. The folder keeps its upload status. This includes every contact, regardless of paging. See POTA upload protections and limits.
Rename	Open a custom folder and tap its folder-name card, then choose Rename Folder from Folder options. Enter a new name and confirm in the Rename Folder dialog; an empty name and a name a sibling folder already uses are both refused ("A folder with this name already exists"), and the new name is saved on this device immediately and sent on when you have a connection. The contact form's Folder card selects a destination; folder management stays in the Logbook.
Correct park	While online, open an activation folder, tap its folder-name card, choose Change Park from Folder options, search for the park you actually activated, and confirm. Hamtrax validates and changes the folder and every contact together; the update is all-or-nothing and safe to retry. Blocked if another activation folder already covers that park on the same date. Works even when the folder's saved park is unusable -- a park name where a reference belongs -- which is how a folder listed under Unrecognized program gets repaired.
Move contacts	For one contact, use Edit → Folder → Update Contact to choose any compatible destination (a custom folder is never compatible with a POTA, DX, or repeater contact). Custom folders also offer the separate Move action on a contact row and Move to folder in Bulk Edit for a selection. The folders themselves stay where they are — custom folders sit in one flat list, and activation, monthly, and category folders are fixed under their program. See Moving contacts between custom folders.
Merge	Open a custom folder, tap its folder-name card, and choose Merge from Folder options (hidden during Bulk Edit). Every contact moves into the custom folder you pick, and the folder you merged is deleted along with its notes, photos, and stream links. Automatic folders have no Merge. See Moving contacts between custom folders.
Delete	Open a content folder, tap its folder-name card, choose Delete Folder from Folder options, and slide Delete Permanently to confirm. Leave Bulk Edit first if it is active; the menu hides folder deletion while editing a selection. Deleting needs a connection and covers at most 250 contacts: offline or during a sync error the confirmation reads Needs a connection, a larger folder reads Too many contacts to delete at once (limit 250), and the slider is greyed out. The folder tree and its contacts go as one all-or-nothing change; nothing is moved to the parent. Associated media is removed with the deleted folders. On a custom folder that still holds contacts the confirmation adds a reminder — "Want to keep the contacts? Cancel and choose Merge instead." — because deleting is the option that does not keep them. The confirmation closes as soon as you slide, and the folder stays until the cloud confirms: then Folder deleted appears and, if that folder is still open, you return to the folder tree so you can see the folders that remain. If the deletion can't finish, Delete failed asks you to check your connection and try again; one cut off by a dropped connection can still complete once you reconnect, so check that the folder is still there first. Category folders cannot be deleted.
Favorite	Toggle the favorite star on any folder. Favorited folders appear in a pinned Favorites section at the top of the folder tree for quick access.

To keep a custom folder's contacts, cancel deletion and use Merge instead. Hamtrax never moves contacts automatically to the parent. If a correction or deletion is too large to complete safely as one operation, Hamtrax leaves the source unchanged instead of doing part of the work.

Moving contacts between custom folders

For a single contact in any content folder, the edit form's Folder card can move it to a compatible destination. That edit saves to the local queue and syncs normally.

Custom folders additionally offer three dedicated reorganization commands. These controls are offered on custom folders only and use the connection, size, and all-or-nothing rules below:

• One contact. Open a custom folder, tap a contact row to open its actions, and choose Move — it sits with Share, Edit, and Delete. Pick another custom folder under Move to, or choose New, name a folder, and it is created and selected right there. Choose the dialog's Move, and Hamtrax confirms with Moved 1 contact, naming where it now lives.
• A selection, or a split. Choose Bulk Edit, select contacts across pages (or Select all), then choose Move to folder in the sticky bottom toolbar beside Set equipment. Pick an existing folder, or create one with Create folder (no other destinations) or New (existing destinations), then confirm Move. Creating a destination is how you split a folder — the contacts you selected leave for the new folder and the rest stay behind. Bulk Edit closes when the move finishes, and the confirmation names the destination.
• The whole folder. Tap the folder-name card and choose Merge from Folder options. The dialog lists your other custom folders under Merge into — there is no New here, because merging is about folders you already have — and confirming moves every contact into the folder you chose, then deletes the one you merged, along with its notes, photos, and stream links. You land on the destination folder, and the confirmation reads Merged into that folder, with the number of contacts moved. If one of the limits below stops the merge, the dialog says which beneath the picker and keeps its Merge button greyed out.

When no other custom destination is available, No other folders yet shows the source folder and offers Create folder. Creating or selecting a destination leaves contacts in their source folder until you confirm Move.

Five limits apply to all of them, and Hamtrax says which one is stopping it rather than failing after you commit:

• A connection is required. These Move and Merge commands are checked in the cloud before anything happens. Offline or mid-sync-error, the action is greyed out and reads Needs a connection.
• 250 contacts at a time. A larger move reads Too many contacts to move at once (limit 250). Move a big folder in selections rather than all at once; Merge on an oversized folder is greyed out for the same reason.
• It is all or nothing. Either every contact in the move lands in the destination or nothing changes at all — there is no half-moved folder to clean up. Merge is not offered on an empty folder.
• A program's contact stays with its program. Select a POTA, DX, or repeater contact and Move is greyed out as Some of these contacts belong in their program's folder and cannot move to a custom folder; Merge is greyed out the same way while the folder still holds one. Everything else in the folder moves as usual.
• A No Program month keeps its month. A No Program folder that QRZ sync creates, such as October 2026 - No Program, takes only contacts dated in its UTC month, like a monthly hunting folder. Pick one for another month's contact and the dialog names the mismatch beneath the picker and keeps Move or Merge greyed out.

These limits apply to the dedicated Move and Merge commands, not the single-contact edit described above. Both paths retain the folder-matching guardrails.

Favorite folders

If you use certain folders frequently -- your main activation logbook, a current contest, or your daily operating folder -- you can favorite them so they always appear at the top of the folder tree.

Favorited folders appear in a dedicated Favorites section above the main tree, separated by a divider. This keeps your most-used folders one tap away, even when your folder tree has dozens of entries.

To remove a folder from favorites, toggle the favorite star again.

Browsing contacts

A folder's List view shows 50 contacts per page. Use the previous and next controls below the contacts to move between pages; opening a different folder starts on its first contact page. The folder's totals, equipment summary, Map, DX, and downloads include all its contacts.

Folder equipment

The Most used equipment section below Photos, notes and links in Logbook details is a read-only summary calculated from all contacts in the folder, including other pages. Radio and antenna are counted independently: each shows the profile used by the most contacts, with its own contact count underneath. Select Radio or Antenna to see how the summary is calculated and how to change the contacts behind it. If no contact records a radio or antenna, that row reads No contacts yet; equipment is not selected or added at folder level.

To update equipment on existing contacts:

1. Select a folder in the logbook.
2. Choose Bulk Edit in the row beneath the Contacts heading, just above the List / Map / DX switch. It opens List for contact selection. Select contacts across pages, or choose Select all in the sticky bottom toolbar to select every contact in the folder, including other pages. It changes to Clear all when all contacts are selected. The List / Map / DX switch fades out above the contact list.
3. Choose Set equipment, then use Change Radio, Change Antenna, or both.
4. Choose Apply. Only the selected contacts change; leaving radio or antenna untouched keeps each contact's current value for that field.

Bulk Edit assigns the radio and antenna, and nothing else. Editing Power on a card inside that picker changes the radio's own saved watts — see Power — and leaves the power already recorded on the selected contacts exactly as it is.

In a custom folder, that same bottom toolbar carries a second action beside Set equipment: Move to folder, which sends the selection to another custom folder — or to a new one you name there, which is how a folder is split. See Moving contacts between custom folders.

While Bulk Edit is active, the Logbook details panel disappears to give contact selection more room. The folder-name card remains above the contacts. The List / Map / DX switch, the folder's own Add Contact, and the global Add Contact, Import Contacts, Download ADIF, and Share map actions also fade out so they cannot be mistaken for actions on the selected contacts. Everything returns when you cancel or finish the bulk edit.

Folder DX summary

The DX position on the List / Map / DX switch summarizes a folder by place: the countries (and US states) its contacts reached, each with its flag and a contact count. A contact that carries no country of its own is counted by its callsign's prefix — Hamtrax carries the complete ITU call-sign series — so an imported log with sparse fields still summarizes. States you haven't worked yet sit in a collapsed Not yet worked list below the worked states.

Folder media

Folders can hold more than just contacts. In Logbook details, below the folder-name card, Photos, notes and links comes first, with Most used equipment beneath it. The media groups sit side by side on wider screens and stack on phones. Empty media sections stay compact with visible Add photos, Add note, and Add link actions, without reserving empty thumbnail slots. Activation and hunting folder detail modals on your own Showcase group the same actions above the gallery, wrapping on narrower screens. You can attach media to any content folder:

• Photos — Select a content folder (activation, monthly, or custom), then choose Add photos in Logbook details and pick as many photos as you want in one go — you don't have to browse once per photo. Activation and hunting folders offer the same picker through Add photos in their detail modal on your own Showcase. Only attached photos appear as thumbnails, filling in as each upload finishes; tap any thumbnail to open a full-screen lightbox. Delete a photo from the red X on its thumbnail. Each folder holds up to 4 photos — the photo add action hides while a folder is full, while note and link actions remain available. If you select more than the folder has room for, Hamtrax adds what fits and tells you the limit was reached. When the batch finishes, Hamtrax confirms how many photos were added and how many the folder now holds. Hamtrax accepts JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, and HEIF photos (iPhone photos work as-is) up to 10 MB each; if anything in your selection is oversized or an unsupported type, you get one message naming the first problem found rather than one per file, and the rest of the selection still uploads. Upload and deletion failures show a message, and accepted photos are compressed automatically for fast loading.
• Notes — Choose Add note in Logbook details or your own Showcase folder modal to add up to 300 characters to record operating conditions, location details, or anything else worth remembering. To update a saved note, select it in Logbook details or choose Edit note in the Showcase modal; the saved note stays visible outside the editor. Notes save automatically after you pause typing, and a running count shows how many of the 300 characters you've used. Choosing Done, or closing the editor any other way, also saves pending text. You can edit notes offline on a folder already available on your device. The save confirmation means the note is stored on that device, and Hamtrax sends it to the cloud in the background when a connection is available. Accepted notes arrive automatically on other devices while Hamtrax is open and connected.
• Stream links — Choose Add link in Logbook details or your own Showcase folder modal to attach YouTube or other video links. To update saved links, select the links section in Logbook details or choose Edit links in the Showcase modal; selecting a saved Showcase link opens its destination. A stream link must be a full web address starting with http:// or https://; a partial address isn't saved. Hamtrax displays a thumbnail preview when it can derive one from the URL, and a saved link that isn't a web address is shown as plain, non-clickable text rather than opened.

Any folder with attached media displays a green camera icon inline in the folder tree, and folders with a livestream URL show a red video icon. These indicators also appear on activation cards under the Activations heading of that program's card on your Showcase.

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Use custom folders for what no program files on its own: a contest, a field day, a club net, or a special-event station. POTA, DX, and repeater contacts always land in their program's folders, and a custom folder never takes one.

Example folder structure

Auto-created folders are grouped under the award program they belong to, so the Activations and Hunting headings always sit beneath the program that filled them — and a program that only hunts skips the headings entirely, listing its months directly on its card. A program card only appears once that program has folders — this example logbook has POTA, DX, and repeater contacts, so all three cards show. Custom folders keep their own section at the bottom.

Parks on the Air                           (award program group)
  |-- Activations                          (auto-created category)
  |     |-- KA8H@K-0817-20260301           (auto-created activation folder)
  |     |-- KA8H@K-4566-20260215           (auto-created activation folder)
  |-- Hunting                              (auto-created category)
        |-- March 2026                     (auto-created monthly folder)
        |-- February 2026                  (auto-created monthly folder)
DX Chasing                                 (award program group)
  |-- March 2026                           (auto-created monthly folder)
Repeater contacts                          (award program group)
  |-- March 2026                           (auto-created monthly folder)
Custom folders
  |-- Contests                             (manual folder)
  |-- Field Day 2026                       (manual folder)

The three "March 2026" folders are not duplicates: each program keeps its own months, so DX contacts, repeater contacts, and POTA hunts from the same month live in their own program's folder — see Logbook Hygiene Rules for the guardrail behind that.

If Hamtrax cannot safely tell which program an auto-created folder belongs to -- its saved program or reference details are missing, malformed, or contradict each other -- the folder is listed under an Unrecognized program heading below the program cards instead of being filed under a program it may not belong to. A folder that was never a program folder in the first place -- for example, a manually created subfolder sitting under the Activations or Hunting category -- is listed under a separate Other folders heading instead, since there is nothing about its program identity to review.

A custom display label is not one of the causes. The folder keeps its saved identity and stays under its program; if you see a folder here, something about its stored program or reference details is at fault, not the name you gave it.

Repairing an activation folder listed here. If the folder is an activation and the problem is its park reference -- a park name was saved where a reference like US-1234 belongs -- open the folder, tap its folder-name card, and choose Change Park from Folder options to pick the real park. Hamtrax re-stamps the folder and every contact inside it together, and the folder returns to its program card and starts accepting contacts again. Correcting a park no longer requires the folder to already have a valid one.

Nothing is hidden or deleted. The folder keeps its name, every contact stays inside it, and you can still open, export, and delete it exactly as before. Only the heading it is listed under changes: because the program is unknown, it is listed on its own rather than under a category inside a program card. Hamtrax will not add new contacts to a folder in this state -- see Logbook Hygiene Rules -- so it is worth repairing where you can. Otherwise, if the folder cannot be repaired by correcting its park, move its contacts into a folder with a known program, or keep it as an archive.

A folder called "Unnamed folder"

A folder listed as Unnamed folder is a real folder whose stored name never arrived. It happens when a folder's first save is lost while a later change to that same folder still goes through: the folder exists, its contacts are inside it, and the count beside it is right -- there is simply no name to show. It is listed under Custom folders, because a folder with no saved name has nothing that ties it to a program.

Hamtrax labels the row rather than leaving it blank, and keeps the folder rather than removing it, because deleting it would strand the contacts inside. Nothing is missing: open it, browse it, and download it exactly as you would any custom folder. The label is only what you see -- it is never what Hamtrax stores, and a download is still named the way every other folder's download is named.

To give it a real name, open the folder, tap its folder-name card, and choose Rename Folder from Folder options, exactly as on any custom folder. Once it has a name it behaves like any other custom folder.

Related pages

• Logging Overview
• Manual Logging
• Importing Contacts
• Exporting Contacts
• Logbook Hygiene Rules
• Hunting From a Park — why a hunted contact sometimes lands in an activation folder