logfiles do not save

HP 15
Windows 10
Intel Pentium N3540
4 GB; 500 GB hard drive
I am trying to start a PBEM game with someone and trying to see how PBEM works with vassal. The problem is when I go to File-> Begin Logfile the routing window opens to where it will save. In order to get on with the game I must close it. To do that I must name the file and save. Then when I have finished my move I go to File->End Logfile, and then it is time to see if I have done it right. I close the game and open the file where the game is saved, and I find there is a saved file with the name I gave it. So I go to Vassal library, open the module and choose that file, but when the game opens, it opens as a new game. Nothing is saved. No chat lines, no moves, no comments, nothing. It’s as if I just opened a new game. I have no file I can send my opponent. This situation is with me as the first player and initiating a new game.

Seems to me, what tiny bit I know, the file should open when I click End Logfile, not when I click open logfile. But I’m not very computer literate. Anyway, can someone tell me what I, or the computer, or the app, whichever, is doing wrong?

Are you giving the filenames the extensions .vsav for a saved game and .vlog for a log file?

I don’t know if that’s the problem or not but you didn’t mention it so I thought I’d bring it up.

.vlog was the extensions I was using. But it’s a moot point. The mistake was mine. I was forgetting to scroll through the moves with the logfile advance button. I was a bonehead. Now I’m embarrassed. But that’s ok, I’m glad to have found the problem and that it is so minor. Sorry to bother everybody over nothing.