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    #1

    Failed to Save Document?

    Attempting to open an A5 app on my machine results in this error message, and instant shut down.

    What's it mean?
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    #2
    RE: Failed to Save Document?

    I'm not 100% sure but I think it has to do with a form or whatever that was in design mode and for some reason didn't get saved. I experience this every so often although it's been awhile now so my memory is somewhat foggy. That happens, ya know, to folks who are over 39 and I'm juuuuussssst over the limit.

    kenn
    TYVM :) kenn

    Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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      #3
      RE: Failed to Save Document?

      Blake,

      Alpha Five is attempting to reopen a database and can't find it. After closing Alpha Five the last time did you move the app to another folder or delete it from it's old location?

      -- tom

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        #4
        RE: Failed to Save Document?

        No, actually running a local copy, all files right here.

        Hmmm.

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          #5
          RE: Failed to Save Document?

          Well, happy b-day, Ken!

          Anywhere in the ancient memory of yours is there a clew as to how you fixed the problem when it arose? :-)

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            #6
            RE: Failed to Save Document?

            Yah, Tom is right. What did I do? Welllllll, remember I said I was just over 39, ya know, the same age as Jack Benny. That said, I believe I had to reinsate the table.

            Whew.............Getting youger is the.......

            kenn
            TYVM :) kenn

            Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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              #7
              RE: Failed to Save Document?

              Blake,

              We are doing a lot of application-to-application calling, and I have run into this quite a bit. I have tried to automate the calls and returns to make things very clean and smooth. This error usually occurs when:

              1. trying to start an app from someplace it doesnt exist, ie: a sub folder instead of the main folder.

              2. bad name for a database. Misspellings are something I do often.

              3. In automating my calls and returns, I build the filename of the database I want to open. I have erroneously created a filename with 2 ".adb"'s. That will generate the error as well.

              Hope this helps.

              Tom

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                #8
                RE: Failed to Save Document?

                Actually, just for the record, it meant the apps was very seriously corrupted. And needed a lot of work to get going again.

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                  #9
                  RE: Failed to Save Document?

                  One cause for this error is when you specify a database name (with or without it's full path) as part of a desktop shortcut AND you also use a "commands" start-up file with the same database listed in the file. List the database name in one place or the other, but not both.
                  Lee Bjornson
                  EnabledMicrosystems.com
                  760-735-9520 (10a - 9p Pacific)

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