Mac OS 9.1 Bruce Richards wrote:
> 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -----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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rachel Walden > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > 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 > > > > ------------------ > > Reminder to each recipient: To change your > list account > > preferences, go to > > > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support > > and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the > ebase support > > list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ebase - Relationship Management for > Nonprofits, > > http://www.ebase.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------ > > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account > preferences, go to > > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support > and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support > list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, > http://www.ebase.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------ > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account > preferences, go to > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support > and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support > list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, > http://www.ebase.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------ > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email >address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
