>>>When I close my laptop it goes into hibernation mode. When I open it, a running VFP application oftentimes (always?) reacts with an 'Invalid Seek Offset' error. Apparently it does not save and restore the file handles.
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>>>Who can tell more about this problem? Is there any configuration setting in Windows or the BIOS that I can manipulate?
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>>Hoi peter,
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>>Good to see you are still here,
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>>Nope, the problem is that the file handles are closed on the server side as well, you will have to handle the error.
>>There is no workarround as far as I know.
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>>Things would be differnt if you were using SQL server, because then you can restore the SQL handle.
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>>Walter,
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>Hi Walter,
>Yes, I'm still around, alive and kicking. :)
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>Reading your answer makes me wonder why I didn't think of that myself. It is now so obvious.
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>Windows generates file handles kind of randomly. Is this not the case with sql-server?

With SQL server, you will not have file handles, but connection handles which can be restored if they are broken.
Our SQL server based application with detect and restore file handel automatically. Even if your laptot is in hybernate mode for a week, you can open the laptop and continue to work.

Walter,

Walter,