Creation Password prompt

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:39:38AM -0800, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
> To: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
> Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Creation Password prompt
> 
> 
> > Quoting Enrique Arredondo (Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:32:46 -0800):
> > [...]
> >> >> > I'm moving a database from one old SCO box to my current one but
> >> >> > after copying all the files using ftp  to the new box , I get this
> >> >> > prompt all the time:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Enter Creation Password for 'bay.WRITEUP'
> >> >> >
> >> >> > How can I get rid of that prompt ?
> > [...]
> >> > if he's getting prompted for a creation password on files that he was
> >> > not getting before, chances are something got corrupted in the copy,
> >> > so the question is how did he copy all the files via ftp to the new
> >> > box.
> > [...]
> >> I copied all of the files using tarball, and still getting the damn
> >> "enter creation password" , I copied from an SCO unix old machine into
> >> REDHAD linux filepro installation and it works flawless, but then after
> >> I tar and move from linux to the New SCO 5.0.7 box I start getting all
> >> the errors. I wonder if the restore I did on the linux from tape was
> >> the trick to success ?
> >
> > As long as the file hasn't changed from the original system to the new
> > system (and tar shouldn't change anything in a file), there is nothing
> > in the above description that would cause a creation password to appear
> > on a filePro file.
> >
> > Can you give the exact steps you used, and exactly when/where you get
> > the "enter creation password" prompt?  ("I get this prompt all the
> > time" isn't very accurate.  For example, I doubt that you get such a
> > prompt at the main filePro menu.)
> >
> 
> Hi, Here's what I did, I restored from Tape all the files from the OLD SCO 
> box into the current SCO 5.0.7 which has filepro configured already working 
> great.
> Then I changed the name for all the files that I restored to something that 
> makes them different from the others, like I added the prefix "bay." , so I 
> ended up with all filepro names being "bay.inventory" etc.....

**** BINGO!!! ****
The devil is in the details.  Did you do this via some operating system
level commands (e.g. mv)?  You must rename with the fpcopy filepro 
utility program, as there is stuff coded into the "map" file which
relates the creation password to the filepro file name via some black
magic.

If you did use fpcopy, then there is a bug somewhere that you'd have
to report to fp-tech.  If you did not, then that is where you went
awry.

-joe

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