Creation Password prompt

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Chasan" <joe at magnatechonline.com>
To: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: Creation Password prompt


> 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
>

Can I do a batch using fpcopy ?  is there an argument that will let me do it 
?

ls /usr2/appl/filepro/inv* | while read line
do
fpcopy $line xx.$line
done

 ?