record being update

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

We rebooted the UNIX server. No one has PC's, only thin clients.

That always fixed the problem.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>; "pmahler" <pmahler at malen.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: record being update


> 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