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    #1

    mpx files

    Please help. I am having mpx files being stored on my windows 2000 desktop instead of some temp folder. I have the delete mpx box check under program options. I can't seem to find where I can change the location of these files.
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    #2
    RE: mpx files

    Do a search on MPX. There has been a lot of duscussion on this issue. It is supposed to be fixed on the next patch release.

    Russ

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      #3
      RE: mpx files

      Fixed my problem with the suggestion in message 50583 on this forum.

      Thanks

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        #4
        RE: mpx files

        Bill,

        We can't search for a message number, so a more helpful approach often is to just furnish the url for the page that has the material you are referencing.

        -- tom

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          #5
          RE: mpx files

          Like this:

          http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/alphaphorum/read.php3?sortby=lastreply&direction=desc&num=11&id=50585&thread=50580#MSG50583

          -- tom

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            #6
            RE: mpx files

            I'll just paste the solution below from Jay Talbott:

            My suggestion is to put a path to Alpha's default folder in the "Start In" box in the shortcut on the desktop.
            That is why the $$*.mpx files are on the desktop.

            If you make sure the Start In box is the default folder, the $$*.mpx files will be deleted automatically.

            Regards,

            Jay Talbott

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              #7
              RE: mpx files

              I think Alpha Users should run a search on their computer and they might be surprised by how many .MPX files are stored throughout their system.

              I just ran a search that found well over 50 MPX files stored in a variety of folders, including the following one:

              C:\ProgramFiles\CommonFiles\System\Mapi\1033\NY

              And this is after I deleted a ton of MPX files one day last week.

              Robert

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                #8
                RE: mpx files

                I just found 180 on the C:\ drive of my development machine that I did not know about. Then 290 on my F:\ drive where a lot of apps are. Scattered here and there on each drive, not just in one place. But none on my E:\ drive, which also has apps!! I thought they were all supposed to go in my Windows temp folder?

                This just has to be fixed!

                Ray

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                  #9
                  RE: mpx files

                  Hello Ray:

                  I also had approximately 200 mpx files spread throughout my machine in places that totally surprised me. I deleted those last week and yesterday I found more than 50 new mpx files.

                  Robert T.

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                    #10
                    RE: mpx files

                    Hi guys,

                    I just almost choked in my coffee reading your messages and directly did a search myself.

                    There were more then 300 mpx-files on my development machine, a lot of them (+/- 200) in the garbage-bin though.

                    Nice if you have a code that puts them there, but then you must not forget to remove them like I did.

                    This must be addressed. No doubt.

                    Regards,

                    Marcel

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                      #11
                      RE: mpx files

                      FYI, my numbers (470) given above did not in those in the recycle bin. If I had included those the number would have been 1049. The real big issue for me is that I have one client who is "mad as hell" over this issue. I have tried several prescribed ways of dealing with the issue, but nothing seems to work so that when an database shuts down they are all deleted, as the settings says. Yes, I know about crashes and other abnornmal shutdowns, which I have tried to deal with. But it seems to me that the program/database could keep track of where it has put them, delete them at proper shut down and either check for them again at the next start up and delete them if found or include the old ones in the delete at the next proper shut down. There must be something hard about this that I do not get.

                      Ray

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                        #12
                        RE: mpx files

                        Hi Ray,

                        I know what you mean, I have the same experience with some of my users.

                        But: I got rid of the mpx-files using the xbasic script from Cal Locklin who was kind enough to publish it on this forum. Did you try that as well ?
                        Only point is, that mpx-files are now making place for the D_Gloss.dbf file, but that's only 1 and stays only 1 so I (and my clients) can live with it although it is not professional.

                        The script works. Do a search on it on the forum and try it if you didn't yet.

                        Regards,

                        Marcel

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