I am working on a database which is giving me serious trouble with Protel crashes. First a bit of history: This database was formed by importing schematics into an Access database from discrete schematic files which had been previously maintained under a Windows database. I've been over all of them, and there doesn't seem to be anything odd or out of order; they pass ERC and generate a netlist nicely. Intersheet connections are made via ports / sheet entries.
I normally keep "Compress on closing" turned on, and I normally close all designs before closing Protel. Three days ago, and again last night, I closed everything down for the night with no ill effects. Next morning I opened the database and got an immediate Protel crash, eventually traced to attempting to open or display a specific schematic sheet (different sheet in the two cases). This morning, I went to the backup (EGC.Bkp), which is uncompressed judging from the 10M file size, vs the 1.4M file size of the main file. I renamed it to BackupEGC.Ddb and it opened just fine, right where I left off last night (except, of course, for compression). Close it with compression, reopen it, still just fine. Close it, rename it to EGC.Ddb, and it crashes when I reopen it. After several attempts and experiments, the crash seems to be related to opening the file named EGC.ddb. That name has worked just fine for at least a week. I have no directories named anything even similar. Anybody have any hints as to how I can work reliably with this database? An hour or two to recover it every morning isn't going to cut the mustard. Unfortunately the client refuses to allow me to publish even a portion of the database so others can look for problems, but there's nothing in here that I have used more heavily before, other than new library parts (which I didn't create). Steve Hendrix * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
