Sorry, I don't know much about mac's but I would still wait as long as you
can before forcing it to stop. As far as the message from Milen Kolev I
think you need an attitude adjustment. I don't think this is the place for
such language.
Thank you,
Bruce E. Richards
IS Specialist
Garten Services, Inc
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From: Rachel Walden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:43 PM
To: TechRocks Support
Subject: [support] RE: uh-oh...
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
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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
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> > 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
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