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Packing a DBF crashes
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01330349
Message ID:
01330351
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What is the TEMP folder (in config.fpw) for this PC? Do you have read-write access in this folder?

See also Re: Weird error on one customer Thread #1318355 Message #1318365

>For the first time in 20 years I am having a problem, on One PC Only, with the Pack command.
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>The problem PC is a 3 month old Dell.
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>The EXE crashes during a pack. Different table some times, same table other times.
>The DBF is gone but a temp file named something like: 0000345R53B1.TMP is left in the folder that turns out to be the final DBF after the Pack.
>I can rename the TMP file to DBF and it works just fine.
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>I am assuming that the rename is causing the problem. The TMP file has no deleted recs. One of the times is where we are emptying a DBF work table with delete and then pack. The TMP is empty which the DBF should be after the Pack.
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>The problem PC is also the server in a 2 station peer to peer network.
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>I can do all kinds of operations that run a Pack in our EXE on the 2nd PC and it has no problems.
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>Any guesses what could be the problem on the 1st PC?
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