>Steve,
>
>I have a "friend" that develops in Win 2000 ... really. He claims that this happens to his as well. His resolution:
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>- Shut down VFP
>- Go into Windows Explorer and look in the form's directory
>- Sort the directory by date/time
>- Look for a file named ########.TMP
>- Rename the #######.TMP file the name of the form with a .SCT extension
>
>Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom. Magic :o)
>
>Hope this helps.
>Doug
>
>>Ever since I have moved to Window 2000, if the O/S crashes - yeah it does even though its not supposed to - for any reason, any open VFP form, and any form whihc HAS BEEN open since the last reboot is trashed. When I look at the SCT file with a text editor, it looks like the file has been overwritten with an single ASCII character. (I haven't looked at it with a heax editer to see which character)
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>>When I first put Win2K on a machine, it was under FAT32, and if I bypassed scan disk, it was usually possible to make a backup, although sometimes thw files were crosslinked any unusable. since I installed on a clean drive with NTFS, a crash means a tolal loss for every thing since the last backup.
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>>BTW, I have installed Win2K - Retail version, and VS6 SP3 (now SP4) on 2 different machines, with diffferent hard drives, vidiel card, CPO, and MB chip set, with the same results. That should eliminate the hardware as a cause.
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>>Another developer tested his machine, by turning off the power with forms open for editing, and did not suffer corruption. (I have had this occur when the power switch on the UPS was bumped to the off position and have tested this way myself. My files were destroyed in this scenario.)
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>>It seems I must have something set incorrectly in VFP or Win2K. Has anyone else seen this and found a solution.


Doug,

Next time this happens, I will look for such a file. None exist right now.

Thanks for the reply.