Freechain question

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Don Coleman (Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:21:02 -0400):
[...]
> Now to my question.  This AM I turned one of the interfaces back on and
> it posted 10-20 records and then the "rebuilding qs1 freechain" popped
> up on the interface window.  I exited the application and then
> immediately started it again.  No freechain error has popped back up,
> the interface is still posting its data and has been doing so for about
> 75 minutes.  If fP automatically detects a files' freechain needs to be
> rebuilt why didn't it pop up when I re-started the interface the second
> time?  There are 100,000-200,000 records in this file and if I manually
> run freechain it will take approx. 60 seconds to complete.  When the
> interface was re-started I can't believe it completely rebuilt the
> freechain since I closed the interface displaying the freechain with
> 2-3 seconds of it appearing.
[...]

Perhaps the corruption was near the beginning of the file, and it only
took a few seconds to reach that part and correct it?

Perhaps the corruption was later on in the file, but there were free
records near the beginning of the file, which are now at the head of
the freechain, and you haven't yet used those up?

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