Wayne: Also, both versions of the structure that I modified now opens as damaged and are not repairable.
Oh joy… -- Douglas von Roeder 949-336-2902 On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Douglas von Roeder <[email protected]> wrote: > Wayne: > > Thanks for the confirmation of what should be happening. > > "Personally I stopped doing that I kept losing too many .jpgs that way :(" > I'm a bit pained to read this comment. This is data is not something like > a JPEG which, if missing, can be easily detected and which can probably be > retrieved from backup. Unfortunately, this is data for synchronizing remote > standalones so both the content and the temporal sequence are very > important. > > What's the latest version of 4D where you tried this approach? I'm > thinking (hoping) that the issue might be resolved in a newer version. > > > > -- > Douglas von Roeder > 949-336-2902 > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Wayne Stewart <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Doug, >> >> That sounds correct. Did you tick both boxes? >> >> http://www.4dsupport.guru/images/CompactAddressTable.png >> >> Personally I stopped doing that I kept losing too many .jpgs that way :( >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Wayne >> >> >> Wayne Stewart >> about.me/waynestewart >> >> >> >> >> On 15 November 2016 at 12:38, Douglas von Roeder <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Working in a 13.5 C/S app on Windows. >> > >> > When I change the storage location of a BLOB field and a 4D Write >> picture >> > field from "in the data file" to "Outside the data file", it appears >> that >> > I'm not able to get 4D to move the BLOB's or 4D Write picture fields >> out of >> > the data file. >> > >> > I've run a routine to update a field (and then remove the update) in >> each >> > record as well as running the data file through Advanced Compact. Both >> of >> > these efforts were carried out per the advice in the Tech Tip entitled >> > "Moving contents of blob outside datafile" (KB asset 76911). >> > >> > One table has a few dozen records with BLOB's while the table with the >> 4D >> > Write picture fields has 62k recs. >> > >> > When I ran Advanced Compact, my expectation was that the BLOB's and >> Picture >> > fields would be located in a folder adjacent to the data file. After >> doing >> > the Advanced Compact, the data file size was reduced from 19.01 to >> 18.55 GB >> > but there were no other files in the folder containing the 4DD, 4DIndx, >> and >> > Match files. >> > >> > The application will be updated to V15.x in the near future but I'd >> like to >> > support this architectural change while the app is still in V13.5 >> > >> > Any insights into this or advice would be greatly appreciated. >> > >> > -- >> > Douglas von Roeder >> > 949-336-2902 >> > ********************************************************************** >> > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) >> > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html >> > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html >> > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech >> > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] >> > ********************************************************************** >> ********************************************************************** >> 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) >> FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html >> Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html >> Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech >> Unsub: mailto:[email protected] >> ********************************************************************** > > > ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
