Answer : Problem solved. It is not window7 related. When I did a fresh install ( not installing over the old directory ) everything is working as expected. So I did something wrong with installing over the old elog directory.

Thanks for you're time and the inconvenience.

Hi Stefan,

> There was a timeout of 1 sec. in the elogd daemon, which probably is too short for a satellite connection. Unfortunately I have no satellite here 
> around to test it, so I "blindly" increased it to 6 seconds in the current SVN version. Please give it a try.

The latest release (2.8.0-2313) does fix this problem.  Our user is now able to modify entries and upload attachments using their satellite connection.

Thank you very much for your time and help.  I am sorry I didn't receive this in time to help test the old SVN version.

Sincerely,
Devin

I could never get shell execution work when elogd is started as a service. This has probably to do with system permissions or so under Windows. If anybody has a clue, please let me know. Under Linux this works nicely, but this is probably not an option for you...

Please have a look at https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66872 

Running through a SQL database requires a major rework of the software. I'm planning this in the long run, but not for this year. I'm also not sure how much this would buy you. If you do a full-text search on 140k entries in a SQL database (not index search), this might also take some time.

But what you can do is to "archive" part of your logbooks. Since the files are named YYMMDDa.log, you can move all 09XXXXXa.log files into a separate "archive" which you then do not include in your search.  

> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I'm starting to get a similar problem to Lance's ("SQL Database").  Searching is beginning to take time.
> 
> In searching, I either can search one logbook (still relatively quick), or all of them.
> 
> I have my logbooks in groups, and often I know which group I want to search, and it would make the searching
> much quicker were the search confined to just that group.  I don't think I've missed anything in the
> documentation on this matter.  
> 
> If not a change to the elog program, is there another way of (say) arranging the logbooks that will achieve this?

You can't do that right now. I would have to extend the functionality to allow searching in groups. Also have a look 
at https://midas.psi.ch/elogs/Forum/66901. Maybe that helps a bit in meantime.

Uh, thank you for teaching me that something like B.E. exists. I didn't know before. Unfortunately elog relied on the underlying operating system date functions. I guess you have to convince Windows or Linux to switch to B.E., then elog will do as well.