record being update

[Kenneth Brody]

Dennis Malen wrote:
> We are getting the following error when we are at the record and press an 
> @key:
> 
> "Record Is Being Updated - Access Denied"
> 
> We usually are able to fix this problem by unlocking the file or shutting 
> down the system and rebooting.
> 
> For some reason this has not helped.

By "unlocking the file", I assume you mean removing the lockfile?  This 
comes up every once in a while here, so let me put my usual response here:

The lockfile has absolutely nothing to do with record locking.  Nothing. 
Nada.  Zilch.  Zip.  Zero.

The only reason filePro would say that the record is being updated by 
someone else is because the O/S told filePro that someone else has the 
record locked.

Now, as to why rebooting wouldn't solve the problem...

Is the file on a network server?  If so, rebooting the workstation wouldn't 
have any effect, unless it was the workstation that had it locked.

If the file is local, and rebooting still tells you that the record is 
locked, then perhaps something else you are running re-locked the record 
before you tried updating it?


-- 
Kenneth Brody