Hello List, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of temp files and scratch settings but…
Recently, my programs have started having more and more failures to create temporary files in several situations for multiple users. Scratch files are always set to tmp unless I change it during troubleshooting. I created a button to capture scratch setting to verify location. The problem does not start immediately after a new session, reports and (filename(0)) work as expected as first. But after a while, (1st issue) printing a very simple report to the screen with no breaks or eeps results in an error C:\docume~1\kenny\locals~1\temp\4bcf107f.$$$ not found! This error is displayed twice even though the report looks OK. These messages are displayed because I have the error messages set ON in order to report if no data found (2059) (error variable stays at 0 even when no data). I checked the scratch directory above and there were $$$ files in the scratch directory but not the one reported in the error. Once this happened, (2nd issue) I tried running a different style of report that captures a select statement or tally to a text file. I test for the existence of the result of set v vfname text = (filename(0)) and if it does not exist, pause for 1, then try again. The loop failed the 5 times it loops, aborted. Each failure was the same file name exactly. I thought the filename is created by/affected by the time (seconds?) but I waited over an hour (same session) and it is still failing to create this same exact file name. Is there a way to seed this process (filename(0)) with a new filename so my users do not have to close and start a new session? I changed my scratch setting to c:\ and it still reported C:\docume~1\kenny\locals~1\temp\4bcf107f.$$$ not found! Same file, same location. Any Ideas what I have done to cause this or what is happening? Confused in OKC, Kenny
