I thought "CrashGuard" cause more trouble than any piece of utility software I ever installed. That was early Win95 when I installed it and removed it very shortly thereafter...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:16 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Setting Scratch, scratch files and R:Base crashes > I'd like to sound out the list's views on what goes on with scratch files: > > As you all know, I've had endless problems with R:Base crashing since > changing from Dos to Windows 2 years ago. > > You also all know that a couple of things have recently made significant > differences to the crashes, namely: > 1) Changing a file extension from .DAT to .$$$. > 2) Removing the SET SCRATCH C:\TEMP setting. > > Currently, I still get a few crashes but nowhere near as many. However, I > noticed today that CrashGuard - yes, I'm still using it - notified a problem > with a .$$$ scratch file in a directory where I didn't think there should be > a scratch file. > > I have 5 databases in 5 sub-directories of D:\DBFiles. > My start-up procedure goes to one of the sub-directories and opens its > database and a form. > (This is my controlling database that contains details of the other 4 DBs > and backups, maintenance, etc., etc..) > The form, basically, has buttons that allow access to the other 4 databases. > The app that is running uses QUIT TO to change to apps that run the other 4 > DBs. > > Generally, this all works perfectly well - except for the crashes... > > Before I removed the scratch setting of C:\TEMP I assumed that all the > scratch files would always be in C:\TEMP. > > Having removed it I assumed that the scratch files would be in the > respective directories for each database as and when a database is opened. > > CrashGuard had a problem with the .$$$ in D:\DBFiles - not one of the > sub-directories. My short-cut has its start-in directory as D:\DBFiles but a > database is not opened until the app changes directory to one of the > sub-directories. It was set that way originally because I often opened > R:Base to work on apps rather than to _run_ the apps. > > If anybody has had any similar experiences or problems with sub-directories > I'd be very interested to hear how they were overcome. > > Thanks & regards, > Alastair. > > ---------------------------------- > A D B Burr, > St. Albans, UK. > ---------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------- > >
