>>I have an application that has been running fine for the last 6 months on 5 different sites. However, recently, some of my sites has not been able to work reporting an error message "File Access Denied".
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>>I have studied this error and it is not due to the attribute of the the file being accessed. My client's system specifications are :-
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>>Processor : 486 DX2-66
>>RAM : 8MB
>>Operating System : DOS/Windows 3.11
>>Network : Peer-to-Peer
>> Lantastic Network Operating System (2-users)
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>>A step-by-step study leads me to understand that one of my programs opens up to 20 files at one time. There used to be no problem until recently. After opening the 11th file, the system reports "File Access Denied". This means that the system suddenly doesn't support the opening of more than 10 files.
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>>In the CONFIG.SYS states FILES=99.
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>>Can someone please help me. I almost going bonkers.
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>NASSIR
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>Oh yeah, run some diags like Norton to check for lost clusters, etc. Also make sure the DBF is ok. If a file is corrupt it can't be opened.
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>HTH Too
>Tom

Hi Tom,

Thanks again. I have run a scandisk and found to be all OK.
The files are not corrupted because I can open the file individually and can append and delete the files too.

Please advise again. Thanks in advance.

NASSIR