Merge Data/Key Files

[Walter Vaughan]

Clay Brown wrote:

> What I have is when troubleshooting the report printing problem I copied the 
> entire FILEPRO directory to the local machine and set the batch to read data 
> from the local machine. ie
> set pfdata=c:
> set pfprog=c:
> set pfdsk=c:
> after the problem was corrected I forgot to change the pfprog and pfdsk and 
> pfdata back to the network share (F:\).
> data was entered from network clients and from the local client but the 
> local client was not writing its data to the DATA/KEY files on the server.

It completely depends upon how your applications are written. Surely you have
more cross reference / transaction tables that are affected.

You have a huge problem on your hands. This is not a simple problem to fix,
since you most likely have duplicate header id or whatever you use to link
header files to detail files.

If you need to keep original time stamps it's an other layer of fixable complexity.

You need to hire the smartest person you can afford who understands how to deal
with mapping filePro files to alien files. This is not something you can fix
with a question on a mailing list.

Fixable yes. Fixable on July 4th? Probably. But it won't be a picnic.

Good luck.

--
Walter