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    COMPACTing the database

    When i try to compact my database, i get the error message "Could not update" Not just one file but seems like it is rejecting ALL the files??!!??
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    Re: COMPACTing the database

    Have you changed anything recently? Possibly moved the database files?
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: COMPACTing the database

      i lost my hard drive and had to put the databases back down from the CD from the repair shop

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        Re: COMPACTing the database

        Many times when you copy files off of a CD it sets them as "Read-Only". Check the file attributes in these directories.

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          Re: COMPACTing the database

          I am not sure just how to check the attributes of the files


          You said:
          Many times when you copy files off of a CD it sets them as "Read-Only". Check the file attributes in these directories.

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            #6
            Re: COMPACTing the database

            right click and choose Properties of any file
            Mike
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              #7
              Re: COMPACTing the database

              Thanks Mike

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                Re: COMPACTing the database

                tHE ATTRIBUTES OF THE FILES IS ok!! There has to SOMEONE out there who has had hard disk problems and had to download files from the outside!!!! This is what started this problem!! HELP!! HELP!! Where is Rabin when you need him?

                I dont understand how A5 can give you such a useless message as this: When trying to compact the files of a database i get this message "Could not up date. Do you want to continue?" Duh!! If you say yes the file does not get updated and it puts 2 $$ in the file type - ie, .$$M. It comes up with this message for every file!! Knowing A5 there is some way to get into the file and reset the SWITCH!!?? or whatever to allow this file to be backed up!!

                Don Walton

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                  Re: COMPACTing the database

                  Don,

                  "The files is ok" doesn't tell us much.

                  Navigate to the drive and select the folder where the database resides. Right click on it and choose Properties.

                  If the Attributes: Read-Only box is solid green within a black frame, some of the files in the directory are marked Read-Only. If the Read-Only box contains a green checkmark, the directory is read only and the files may be as well.

                  In either case, clear the box, choose Apply, and make sure you choose to have it applied to This folder, sub-folders, etc.
                  There can be only one.

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                    Re: COMPACTing the database

                    Don,
                    Whenever I have had the .$$M occur....and I knew this was happening by testing by compacting the database and having the same error message appear...it meant that no matter what I did, the only way to cure this is to use a backup of that file....and most times I had to use all the dictionary files associated with that specific table.

                    It indicates file corruption and can be caused by various things. In my case it was improper coding--causing Alpha not to be able to resolve something. A few times it was code I had placed in the OnInit event of a form which should not have been placed there (I now know why it should not have been placed there but when I was very new to Alpha I tried most everything!). Other times it was a bad calculated field or reference to something that Alpha could not see....which then it could not resolve.

                    So what to do....unless others have a different means, you are going to have to first use a backup to restore the files and then try to figure out the cause. One step at a time.
                    Mike
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                      Re: COMPACTing the database

                      My confusion here is that the repair people backed off my databases onto a CD. All I did was to download these databases and they worked, so i immediately wanted to compact them and back them up, but i can not COMPACT them!! All of the databases wil not compact and ALL files are affected.

                      Don

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                        Re: COMPACTing the database

                        Taking files off of a CD is the main way I have heard of the File Block being added to the file's properties by Windows....it is just a checkbox or button that will change this when in properties.

                        Are you certain that all the files in question do not have this restriction? Makes me curious as well if say even one was still checked and Alpha tried to read the file that it could cause some form of corruption....just a thought.
                        Mike
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                        It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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                          Re: COMPACTing the database

                          Stan

                          When i right click on the folder containing the database, the attributes: read-only is a small solid green box within a black frame. I clear the box and choose APPLY and apply to the sub-folders also, and when i recheck the folder to see if it worked, the box is green again. In fact every folder that i check like this has the same thing and the box is green again upon rechecking!!

                          Under the ADVANCED button there are 2 possibilities and i am wondering if i should check the box that reads "folder is ready for archiving". The other box that reads:"for fast searching..." IS CHECKED.

                          Don Walton
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                          "The files is ok" doesn't tell us much.

                          Navigate to the drive and select the folder where the database resides. Right click on it and choose Properties.

                          If the Attributes: Read-Only box is solid green within a black frame, some of the files in the directory are marked Read-Only. If the Read-Only box contains a green checkmark, the directory is read only and the files may be as well.

                          In either case, clear the box, choose Apply, and make sure you choose to have it applied to This folder, sub-folders, etc.

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                            #14
                            Re: COMPACTing the database

                            I too find that if you uncheck the read only box and click apply it does not stick. When you go back into properties the check box is ticked again. However I have a few databases and some of the compact normally despite the read only attribute being ticked on the properties so I am not sure that that is the problem. I have asked about this on the forum before and the advice I was given was that a report or table was not being closed properly. I dont think Compact works on an open table.
                            Gil Smith

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                              Re: COMPACTing the database

                              Well I now have 4 (FOUR) databases that I can NOT COMPACT!! Dont know what to do because after awhile this will blow up on me also!!

                              It used to be you could go into the files and FIX ANYTHING!! Now it seems like they are getting stricter and stricter!! I just love these messages that come up and they just leave you with your mouth hanging open since you dont know what to do NOW!!

                              I almost know that there is probably ONE BYTE in each of my files that has this problem that needs to be reset to make the compact work!!

                              Don

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