Filepro Unix upgrade

[Christopher Yerry]

--- Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net> wrote:

> Quoting Christopher Yerry (Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:09:06
> -0800 (PST)):
> [...Advice on moving from 4.8 on old system to 5.0
> on new system...]
> 
> [...]
> > 4 Destroy all filepro filelocks
> >     { find /appl/filepro -name lockfile -rm {} \; 
> )
> 
> Not necessary if no one was in the file when you
> copied it over (and
> no one should be in it), but "it couldn't hurt".
> 
> > 5 open
> >         EVERY PIECE OF CODE AND RE SAVE IT (esc)
> (esc)
> >         OPEN EVERY REPORT AND RE SAVE IT(esc)
> (esc)
> >                the reports may give you an error
> on
> >                opening save (esc) (esc) them it
> will
> >                go away
> >         Open every screen and save it.
> 
> I'm not sure why you would want to go through this
> hassle.  Unless you
> did something to corrupt the file copying it over
> (in which case you're
> going to want to copy it again, not simply resave
> the corrupted file),
> there is no need to do this.
> 
> [...]
> > 6) RE INDEX EVERY FILE (should I say that again)
> [...]
> > - I actually would recommend recording the
> structure
> > every index destroying them and re creating them
> but
> > I'm a fanatic
> 
> Destroy and recreate is a bit overkill, but
> rebuilding the indexes may
> not be a bad idea.  If you happen to have a
> corrupted index because of
> an old version of 4.8, rebuilding it with 5.0 will
> fix it.  (Of course,
> the act of copying it doesn't introduce any problems
> that weren't there
> already.)
> 
> [... Snip good idea of running old and new in
> parallel, which is ...]
> [... usually a good idea for any system replacement.
>             ...]
> 
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Ken ...  thanks

I have had some hickups in the reports so I will stand
by that one - Also re saving will tell you if the file
was corrupted at transfer - always a good thing to
find out before the users get on the system.

It was actually Ray Hoovers (fpTech) suggestion to re
open everything and re save it (yes I still have the e
mail)! and I did say I was a fanatic - but I would
rather take a chunk of time on the front end and not
get it in the back end (no pun intended)

What I have found is that version 4 was a copy of
version 3 was a copy of (you get the picture) - it
usually is a good idea to re compile your code if it
hasn't been done in a while and start with a clean
slate. 

Christopher Yerry
pres CM Coftware
Minneapolis/ ST Paul

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