>Hi,
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> I have a new desktop computer at work, it's a PIII-450Mhz. It has 64M of RAM and a 8G hard drive. Windows 98. We have a couple of rather large applications written in FoxPro for Windows 2.6a, using Stonefield DataDictionary and Application Dictionary tools. I have already used the patch for fast computers from Microsoft's web site. I can start up FoxPro just fine. But if I try to modify project, whether from Stonefield's Application/Modify... menu or from the command window, I get an I/O Operation Failure. I can run the application if it is already compiled, but I cannot compile it. And the application behaves abnormally and errors out.
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> Does anyone have a solution for this other than Microsoft's patch? Right now I have two computers on my desk. My boss wants me to use just the new computer, but until we can find a fix for this I can't. I the company decides to roll out a new wave of desktops for everyone it would be a disaster with this problem happening.
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> Please help if you can!
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>Dana

If the problem is I/O Operation Failure (error 1002), it may be that your app or development environment is expecting to write its temp files to a non-existent drive. For example, if an app was developed on a system whose tempfiles were set to a drive D:, and on your computer drive D: is a CD-ROM drive with no CD in the drive, then you will get this message. One simple fix for this is simply to put a CD in the drive. I seem to remember someone mentioning a more permanent fix might be available from www.abri.com.