>After moving to a new server installation, we have been having "delayed write errors" off an on. Seems to be when we have heavy usage. Before the switch, all workstations had a mapped drive to the database location on the server. After the move to the new server all workstations located the database location using UNC.
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>Our guess is that with the UNC naming convention, there is a delay in opening the Databases for usage and when heavy usage, this would be causing a problem and throwing the "delayed write error". We changed the datalocation to mapped drives and it seems to have solved the problem.
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>The number of workstations are not that great. Approx. 25
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>I an not comfortable that this is really solving our issue, however, it seems to have corrected the problem with mappings.
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>Has anyone experienced problems like this?
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>Thanks in advance
Very odd that it would work ok with mapping the drive and not UNC - if anything I would think it would be the opposite.
Anyway might take a look at your anti-virus software - I've had that cause me network issues with VFP in the past...
ICQ 10556 (ya), 254117