Fellow list members, Today, I encountered a problem that had me scratching my head for a while. With a shot of luck I quickly found a solution though.
While I was working on my Metropolis project, I suddenly found that RB (on Windows) would no longer build or run my project. RB would hang and could only be terminated by means of the task manager. Smaller projects would run and build without a problem though. I went back from r3 to r2, but the problem persisted. Rebooting my pc (which I rarely do) did not solve this either. I then went looking and found that the directory c:\Documents and Settings\MyUname\Local Settings\Temp contained over 65000 files; by the looks of it almost all of them 0 byte temporary files. I deleted all of them and voilá, RB would run and build my project again. I then found out that RB creates 79 new 0 byte temporary files on each consecutive run. So, on the second run there were 158, and so on. My guess is that my system was bumping into the file system (NTFS) limit of maximum number of files that a single directory can hold. Perhaps RB creates fewer files on smaller projects, which would explain why those would still run (79 were too many, but there was room for a smaller number). So, if you're on Windows, you might want to check out that particular directory and do a bit of cleaning up before you hit the ceiling in the way that I did. I suspect that this would also prevent you from installing new software on your pc, as installers often write to this same directory, plus a myriad of other problems could occur with any part of the OS or other software accessing a directory with that many files. I have no time to file bug reports, so if anyone would feel so inclined, or if RS could follow up on this problem directly, this would be appreciated. Ronald Vogelaar -- http://www.rovosoft.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
