Mark, What exactly is it you want her to try here? It sounds to me like you want her to copy her STR to a clean directory, load it with DP, create new TXX and IND files, and them copy the old big data files to this new directory. If that's true, I don't understand why successfully loading the old big data files in the new directory would signify a database that might be too big. I'm sure I'm missing something here.
Ralph Mark Nepon wrote: > Laurie, > Copy the str file and open it up in a new directory the open it with > Dataperfect (recreating the txx and ind files as prompted) and try to load > the current file as you have done on the current large databse. If this > works without a problem then you probably are dealing with database size > issues. If so, and this is a critical database, I would make a copy of the > old database for historical info and fabricate a working copy with > pertinant info. Pertinant info means data necessary. Historical data is > neat to store but unneccessary if not used. > > all the best > mark > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laurie Corvacho" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dataperfect Users > Discussion Group" <[email protected]> Sent: > Sunday, August 19, 2007 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Re: I need help > with a dumb question! > > >> Hi Ralph and Mark, >> >> I made an empty copy of the database, and all the records import fine, in >> toto. (??!!) Would this mean I have hit some kind of a limit as far as > index >> and/or TXX file size? Getting close to and then hitting a limit might >> possibly make sense as to why the number of records that could be >> successfully imported suddenly became a problem, and is now constantly >> shrinking. I don't think DP's file size limits are actually this low, so >> possibly I have hit a practical as opposed to a theoretical limit? >> >> STR: 3,346 KB >> TXX: 524,151KB >> IND: 195,348KB >> >> What do you suggest? >> >> In the meantime, while hoping to hear back from someone, I am going to go >> ahead and make a copy of my database, from which I am going to delete >> some of the oldest data in order to try to decrease the size of the TXX >> and the >> IND files, and then try the import again. (I imagine that this may > require >> performing another Big Clean afterwards.) >> >> Thanks again for all your help, Ralph and Mark! >> >> Laurie Corvacho >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ralph Alvy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 10:51 AM >> Subject: [Dataperf] Re: I need help with a dumb question! >> >> >> > Bummer. I'd start with what Mark said here: >> > >> >> You should assess the info in the file used for import to be sure >> >> it has all the info for all the fields. >> > >> >> You might try importing this data to an empty database of the >> >> program and see if they all import." >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Dataperf mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dataperf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf >> _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
