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Invalid Seek Offset
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14/10/2004 14:14:37
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00949098
Message ID:
00951490
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>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>Executable file stored on the mapped network disk.
>>>>>After running a while user gets "Invalid Seek Offset" error and programm crashes. Windows XP.
>>>>>
>>>>>Where is the problem? Network problems?
>>>>>Thanks in advice.
>>>>
>>>>More than likely a corrupted index file. Try recreating your index tags for your data tables.
>>>
>>>It seeks so, but how index file got corruted? Can it be because of moving from VFP7 to VFP8? Before it such problems didn't occur... :-/
>>
>>Just because you can seek, doesn't mean it's not corrupted. If you happen to land on a corrupted node during a seek, you can get the "Invalid Seek Offset" error.
>>
>>There are many reasons that corruption can take place, such as power failures, network hiccups, bad network hardware, like NICs and cabling, need for updated software, etc..
>>
>>Are you using SP1 for VFP8? VFP8 does a better job of noticing that the files are corrupted than earlier versions of VFP. The corruption may have always been there, you're just now seeing it.
>
>So, deleting all indexes and recreating for all tables will help?

Yes, it may help. Kevin's suggestion to check all your cabling is a good piece of advice, too.
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

foxcentral.net
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