Al;

It is nice to have know where to look for answers. Now the value of the answer is another story all together!

I presume answers like this solve problems for some people. Somehow I would expect a definition of what caused the error and how to resolve and prevent it. Do people devote his/her professional skills to develop such answers or do they "get paid by the pound". One pound of soultions equals $$$. Oh well, we all have to survive somehow! :)



A search on "Delayed Write Failed" provided the following for the first "answer".


Error Message:
(Lost Delayed-Write Data) The system was attempting to transfer file data from buffers to filename. The write operation failed, and only some of the data may have been written to the file.
User Action:
There may have been a loss of data. Decide if the missing data is important enough to restore the file from backup and redo the file operations that led up to the message.




I would imagine that the person who wrote this if confronted with such a problem would stay up for days attempting to make a decision. “Now should I restore from backup or redo the file? Is the data important”? Decisions, decisions! Decisions can be so complex especially when you have an Error Message and failed operation.

Tom


>>We are receiving the following error at multiple locations.
>>Sometimes the server is Small Business Server 4.5 and sometimes it is Small Business Server 2000.
>>
>>The workstation is always Windows 2000 Professional.
>>Sometimes Service Pack 2 is installed.
>>It is never Windows 98 or Windows NT.
>>
>>The error occurs while attempting to update a Visual FoxPro Table using a local view or attempting to update the table with Use,Replace commands.
>>I have never seen it while updating SQL Server using a remote view.
>>
>>Title = Windows - Delayed Write Failed
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>>Windows was unable to save all the data for the file.
>>\Device\LanmanRedirector\2kserver1\dsmain\dsinhl.CDX. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection.
>>Please try to save the file elsewhere.
>>
>>Then the user is just presented with an OK box.
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>http://search.microsoft.com/us/dev , click on Advanced Search, make sure Knowledge Base is checked, search on "Delayed Write Failed" returns 45 hits.