Rachel,
I would wait as long as you can before forcing it to end its task.
The chance of data corruption is much higher if you force the it to stop.
But the chance is already there that the damage has already been done. What
OS are you running?
Thank you,
Bruce E. Richards
IS Specialist
Garten Services, Inc
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rachel Walden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:35 PM
To: TechRocks Support
Subject: [support] RE: uh-oh...
Thanks Bruce. I am able to do other things, just more slowly
than usual. I'd say it's been running for 30 minutes or more, though. We do
have a gigantic database,
but the dupe check I had run earlier only took a few
minutes. Any thoughts on what will happen if I force quit? I'm wondering if
I will need to go to a backup, or
if the data might be okay...
Rachel
Bruce Richards wrote:
> Rachel,
> I'm no ebase pro by any means but computers I can
hold my own. I
> would just wait and see if it completes what ever
computations it's
> performing. If not then you only have one course of
action and that's the
> one you mentioned you didn't want to do. Do you have the
ability to do any
> thing on the system? Like can you do something else while
ebase is doing
> its thing? If not then I would be afraid that the system
has locked up and
> you only have one course of action. Sorry I can't be more
help.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bruce E. Richards
> IS Specialist
> Garten Services, Inc
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Walden
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:00 PM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] uh-oh...
> Importance: High
>
> I ran a loose dupe check in ebase. I was
going through the
> duplicate
> records when I came across a record that I
wanted to delete.
> It was
> listed as the primary record for a
household, however. I
> attempted to
> change the primary person to the other
person, at which
> point the dupe
> check started to run again. My screen is
blank except for
> saying
> "names_.102 " in the bar at the top, and
sometimes I see the
> scroll
> arrows on the side. i see the blinking
symbol that indicates
> it's doing
> something, but that is all that has been
happening for 15
> minutes. It
> won't even let me quit out of it, and I'm
afraid to
> force-quit out. What
> to do???
> Thanks,
> Rachel
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