Thanks Jack! I didn't quite know how to explain it.
Valerie Ansted Warden
Georgia ForestWatch
4 River St., Ste. C
Ellijay, GA 30540
706-635-8733
www.gafw.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Noll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "TechRocks Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 8:07 PM
Subject: [support] Re: unable to read disk while deleting
> I spoke with Valerie on the phone about her problem, and here's her
situation:
>
> The office has one copy of Filemaker Pro installed on multiple machines;
> they've applied for additional licenses through FM's donations program,
but
> have yet to receive any. So, each machine is running the same FM license,
> which means that none of them can be running on the network at the same
> time. They are definitely NOT running multi-user. They are simply using
> the hard drive of one of the computers (call it Computer A) as an
extension
> of the other computers. When someone on one of the other computers
> (Computer B) needs to access the database, the person on Computer A needs
> to close Filemaker entirely. In this scenario, the folder that holds the
> ebase files absolutely HAS to be shared, otherwise there's no way for the
> other person to access them. There is no hosting going on at all.
>
> We could not replicate the problem during our phone conversation. I
> suspected a bad spot on the drive where the deleted_.102 file lives, and
> had her (a) close ebase; (b) copy the deleted_.102 to another file ("Copy
> of deleted_.102"); (c) rename the original deleted_.102 to "deleted_
> bad.102"; (d) rename "Copy of deleted_.102" to deleted_.102. All of this
> happened with no error messages.
>
> We then opened ebase, created a new name then deleted the name with no
problem.
>
> She also reported, during the phone call, that the computer was running
> much slower than normal today in all applications. I suggested that she
> shut it down for several minutes, then restart it and see if that behavior
> persists. I also strongly encouraged her to have her tech consultant
check
> out her hard drive for bad sectors developing.
>
> >Not sure exactly what you mean here? Do you mean it's being hosted by a
> >copy of FMP or FMP Server running on your file server, or is it that the
> >ebase files reside in a shared directory on your file server, and then
> >opened via the network by whoever needs to open the files?
> >
> >If it's the latter, please understand that this is NOT a recommended way
> >to share Filemaker databases. Anytime you have the files in a shared
> >directory, network activity can potentially interrupt your connection to
> >the files. This can happen in many ways, and can sometimes result in
> >blocked access, or even permanently corrupted files. Filemaker files are
> >notoriously unstable.
> >
> >Better to either:
> >*If you have many users who use it a lot, get FMP Server
> >*If it's mostly one user with others using occasionally, put it on the HD
> >of the most frequent user, and let this user host others through regular
> >FMP when needed.
> >
> >That being said, other folks do set it up the way you're doing it. Just
> >understand that it's probably causing the problem you saw today and could
> >cause worse.
>
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> Jack Noll - ebase consultant and wildlife advocate
>
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