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    #1

    HELP, error message

    Hello All,

    As always I'm in the dark as to what is happening, however this is by far the most confused I've been using Alpha.
    I have a networked app, I create some of the operations directly on the server. I have just tried an import operation and received the following error message.
    The system can not find the file specified "...C:progra.dbf".

    Any help with this is truly appreciated as I'm close to jumping out the window (1st floor mind).


    Cheers
    Tom
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    #2
    RE: HELP, error message

    When Alpha encounters some problems that the error trapping cannot fully describe, it will report the "next best" thing to the real error. (I have seen it report that it could not find the sample "invoice" tables that Alpha installs automatically, when nothing in my app referred to them.) Backtrack through the last changes you made, check to see if the file you are importing from still exists, with the name specified in the import, in the same directory structure. Make sure the file you are importing to is not read-only.
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      RE: HELP, error message

      Hello Stan,

      Thanks for the quick response, unfortunately I could not even open the said import operation to see where it was pointing etc. I may have messed up but though deleting the import would help, to no avail. Every time I try to create a new import from scratch I am receivng the same error message. It seem to be limited to the existing dbases I have in the same folder, as I have created a new dbase within the folder and created 1 new test table and it let me select the import operation, which it does not even do from the existing dbases. Still v.confused.
      Thanks in advance

      Cheers
      Tom

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        #4
        RE: HELP, error message

        In the control panel, tables tab, are the databases "greyed out" and does the modified column say "not available"? If so Alpha doesn't know where the tables are due to directory structure change or missing files. Does the path indicated in the "full name" column really point at the tables?

        Try dropping one of the tables and then re-adding it. You will have to navigate around the directories to find the table just dropped.

        Sounds like something has changed to confuse Alpha as to the location of your tables.
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          RE: HELP, error message

          Dear Tom,

          I note that you have your app networked and the error message reports that the import can't find "C: ..". If you are importing from a workstation, the drive & directory must point to the specific location of the file. So if the file to import is on the "C" drive of the server, A5 won't find it from the workstation. You must either create a consistent virtual drive (i.e. "g" drive connects to server "C") or use the UNC path (i.e. "///server/c:/import_ directory/import_file.txt") By the way, to be consistent, you can create the same virtual drive on the server pointing to the server's drive "C" (in other words drive "G" on the server will be the same as "C" on the server; the first being a virtual drive, the latter a logical drive).

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            #6
            RE: HELP, error message

            In my prior message, I made an error on the UNC path. It should be "serverc:import_directoryimport_file.txt" where "C:" is the assigned share name of the server drive "C".

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              RE: HELP, error message

              In my prior message, I made an error on the UNC path. It should be (i.e."serverc:import_directoryimport_file.txt") where "C:" is the assigned share name of the server drive "C".

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                #8
                RE: HELP, error message

                John & Stan,

                Thanks very much for your time and patience, I seem to have half solved the problem, the table that could not be found was indeed greyed out and said 'Not Available', however this was also very confusing as at no stage have I created a .dbf called 'progra' in the database. The half solution I found was to create this table and place it at the root of the c: drive (which is the location Alpha was trying to find it in). I say half solved as I can now create a new import operation, however I do not have the option to amend its design, if I highlight the import and choose design I am taken to the screen as if you had asked to create a new import, srtange huh???.
                I realise a lot (all) of this problem is my creation as prior to it I copied the files from the server to my local machine (to test some scripting) during which my system crashed, locked up.
                Once again thanks for the advice I'm away from the office now and will let you know how I get on with your suggestion.
                Would there be any benefit in unistalling and reinstalling Alpha???

                Cheers
                Tom

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