This does not speak directly to the problem you are experiencing, sorry. But what you say about not being sure what solved it is an interesting topic. I think it was Joe Durrett, who was at the top of the Sales org chart when I was at Kraft, or maybe it was his marketing counterpart, who described it as "white on white on white." What he meant was Kraft, like many other organizations, tries to build sales using many methods. The most direct was to give grocery retailers money in return for running the product in an ad and reducing the shelf price. At the time there was a movement toward fixed fund allocations, also known as street money -- the manufacturer gives money to the retailer in a more long term way and they work together, relying on mutual trust (which didn't always exist) to sell the brand. Advertising in various mediums. Brand loyalty accumulated over the years. "What really put that unit of blue box through the scanner?" (Kraft mac and cheese -- go buy some today! <g>) Kraft wanted to quantify everything, which is smart business no matter what business you're in, whether you're big or small. The head of the significant chunk of IT I was in, a great guy named Sal Paciello, liked to say, "If you can't quantify it, it doesn't exist." It frustrated them to the senior VP level and undoubtedly above that it was so hard to quantify. (Sal's boss, BTW, was Bruce somebody, who left to cofound Boston Chicken, now known as Boston Market).

Sorry for the digression. Good luck with the SCT corruption issue. FWIW I also suspect some outside force is the cause, which is not especially helpful.


>I certainly will, if I do well enough to resolve it.
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>I may not know, of course, which of the actions I take have anything to do with it, as I will be trying a number of different things. Since I do not know how to intentionally cause the error, and since it occurs relatively infrequently, it will take some time to have any certainty that the problem has disappeared.
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>But I will keep you posted.
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>Now, back to Write Caching -- What are you suggesting that it be set to?
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>>You've been given good things to try. All of these suggestions are things that have worked for most of us in the past. Can you post your results after you test each of the suggestions? Note, it may take a combination of the suggestions to resolve the issue....
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>>>OK, those look like very detailed instructions. Write caching is enabled for the disk where my apps live. How is that relevant?
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>>>>Turn Disk Write Caching On or Off
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>>>>1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
>>>>2. Click the Hardware tab, and then click Device Manager.
>>>>3. Expand Disk Drives.
>>>>4. Right-click the drive on which you want to turn disk write caching on or off, and then click Properties.
>>>>5. Click the Policies tab.
>>>>6. Clear the Enable write caching on the disk check box as appropriate.
>>>>7. Click OK.
>>>>8. Restart the Computer.
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>>>>>I have absolutely no idea. I have never done anything with write caching, nor do I know how to.
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>>>>>>Is write caching disabled on all HDD in the system?
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>>>>>>>I've been getting the following error message every day or so:
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>>>>>>>Memo File (Form-Name).SCT is missing or invalid.
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>>>>>>>This occurs after I have been working on a form, when I try to save it. It's not the same form every time or anything, so I can see no pattern.
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>>>>>>>Now, obviously, the SCT had to exist when I opened the form to edit it, and I can see that it exists, so it must have become invalid.
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>>>>>>>How can that happen, if I am saving it???