Thanks to Colby, Dan, Dwight, Jason, Burt and Geoff,
Your suggestions are much appreciated.
Unfortunately they have not helped with my problem.
I am able to open the DDBs on another machine here so it would appear to
rule out DDB corruption
I am loathe to fiddle with the ODBC drivers. The last time I tried
updating these was about 6 months ago (from the address supplied) and it
knocked my PC out for a couple of days. I was eventually able to recover but
it is not something I would like to try again.
Geoff's suggestion of deleting the configuration files and letting
Protel replace them with virginal ones did not work either - the problem
remained.
And here I was hoping that a nice rest over the weekend would allow
Protel to contemplate the error of its ways....
I guess there is nothing for it now but to remove and reinstall Protel.
One final request for advise though....
When removing Protel do I have to uninstall the Service Pack first (or
all service packs individually - SP4, 5 & 6) or is simply uninstallinf
Protel99SE sufficient to exorcise all Protel demons from my system?
Thanks again guys. This forum provides value beyond measure.
Best Regards,
LINDEN DOYLE
Product Development Engineer
Zener Electric Pty Ltd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph: +61 2 9795 3600
Fax: +61 2 9795 3611
-----Original Message-----
From: Colby - PowerStream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Protel EDA Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, 19 May 2001 02:21
Subject: Re: [PEDA] My protel won't load DDBs
>Linden,
>
>Try following this link to MS's website and download the latest RTM release
>for the Microsoft Data Access Components(MDAC).
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/data/download.htm
>
>Also make sure you are using the latest service pack from Protel SP6.
>
>Having both of these installed should at least eliminate them as a possible
>problem.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
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> ** Custom Power Supplies
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>
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Linden Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "PEDA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 5:14 PM
>Subject: [PEDA] My protel won't load DDBs
>
>
>Greetings all,
>
> I suppose this should teach not to take holidays....(maybe Protel is
>sulking)
>
> I started Protel this morning after a week's break and all seemed OK
>until I actually tried to load a DDB. Any attempt to load a DDB is met with
>the "New Database" dialogue box and the statement that the document I have
>tried to open must be imported into a new DDB. This is with DDBs that
worked
>happily last week.
>
> It is possible that somebody has fiddled with the computer while I was
>away, but what could have been changed to produce this behaviour.
>
> The Repair Database utility does not help in this situation.
>
> Should I simply do a re-install of Protel or can anyone offer some less
>drastic suggestions.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>
>Best Regards,
>
>LINDEN DOYLE
>Product Development Engineer
>Zener Electric Pty Ltd
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Ph: +61 2 9795 3600
>Fax: +61 2 9795 3611
>
>
>
>
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