NEW BLOB FIX!!!! RE: Birthday coming soon

Thu Mar 4 06:21:51 PST 2010

My issue is not the size of the blob.  but for some odd reason

record 13 has a memo
record 12 has a memo

At some point in time the memo's lose their association with the correct 
record#.

Record 13 memo appears on record 12.  Edit the memo on record 12 and memo 
associated with record 13 is also changed.  It is as the memo is now linked 
to two records.  The original value of one of the memo's is lost forever. 
blobfix fixes the link, it does not restore the contents of the original 
memo.  After blob fix the  memos can be edited correctly.

I remember the memo size issue but the current version - 1 had more issues 
than one can count if I remember correctly.

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From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:11 AM
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Subject: NEW BLOB FIX!!!!   RE: Birthday coming soon

> Ken,
>
> Hold on with the birthday stuff... This is important...
>
> There is a MAJOR (and I mean MAJOR) blob fix in the latest filePro. I
> discovered the problem about 6 months ago when our blobs were just getting
> SO huge.  The fix brings blobs down to exactly the size they should be
> (which is actually quite small)... You can easily calculate how big your
> blobs should be with a simple multiplication in the exact same way you
> calculate key size. I'm talking about using blob fields as MEMO edit type
> here. The Blob file has space added to it in 8k chunks. So, as your text
> moves up past an 8k boundary, a new 8k chunk is attached to the file.  If
> your blobs are gigantic, hell if they are simply bigger than the amount of
> text you have per memo dividing exactly into the blob file size...
> Remembering that you might have just 1 extra 8k chunk for the first
> available free space... Then you NEED the latest version.  Actually, this 
> is
> an absolute bug, if you use the MEMO edit type in your map, this error
> *will* happen to you.  By getting the new version (I guess that would be
> 5.6.10 now or is it 11?) you can run the new "blobfix" program that comes
> with it, and shrink/fix your blob files on the order of 2Gb files become 
> 3Mb
> and similar.  It simply makes the blobs infinitely more stable. There was 
> a
> time when the blobs I used as MEMO type were so unstable that I always
> passed and used some other text saving method. Now, I use the MEMO 
> function
> everywhere and they are solid as anything else I could muster up.  It's
> actually nice to have the feature. Now all we need is a better printing
> function for them. A while back I posted a method for being able to TAB 
> into
> and out of MEMO fields on the screen.  I feel they need to act similar to
> the way other fields on the screen work... But that is just my hang-up.
> There are lots of great uses for the MEMO exactly as they are.  One last
> thing... I'm not sure if the PageUp and PageDwn while in a text (MEMO) 
> field
> has been fixed. In previous versions it didn't work, and I think that is a
> must fix to make the MEMO editor have the look and feel anyone would 
> expect.
> Ken told me one time that he thought it should work and was surprised to
> find out it didn't, so it may have been another bug fixed in the new
> version. I didn't put it in as a specific bug report, so maybe that's 
> still
> hanging out, don't know.
>
> But if you're having problems with MEMO/BLOB's being unstable and WAY too
> big, you need to get the new version. I think anything to do with file 
> size,
> (like ddefine and other executables have the fix in them.
>
> Now, birthday stuff. 51 to 61 was a horrendous decade for me... At 50 is
> when I lost my sight. It kind of ruined any of the good stuff that was
> happening else wise like grandkids, having enough money for things I 
> always
> wanted, making a nice house and home... Relaxing a little, etc.  You I 
> hope,
> should be doing all those things and really enjoying it. But, don't let
> those muscles go down. I remember when you could do *pull-ups* on my door
> frame... Hanging by your fingertips!!!  Go on an Outreach trip or
> something... Just don't fall into Mt. Saint hellen.  :-)
>
> Funny, you're listing to blues lately... Remember when we loved the Rock 
> so
> much. And there were great bands to go hear like Happy The Man.  I, too, 
> am
> playing a lot of blues. (I still love Blue Grass, and am going to see
> Allisyn Krauss in May at Gettysburg...) but Saturday night I'll be playing
> Rock Me Babe, and A Man In Love (a Clapton tune on "Money And Cigarettes")
> also, two of my own bluesy things... Oh, yeah, also Cripple Creek (The
> Band... Old standby's like that just never die.  "She told me just to come
> on by if there was anything that she could do..." [and she could do a lot 
> of
> things! :-)]).
>
> Am I getting punctuation crazy in my old age?  Truly, if it matters, over 
> 60
> and I don't feel like it's old age... Not until I try and get up after
> sitting on the floor for a while... Or when my fingers cramp up after two
> songs... Or any number of other things... But inside... In my head, where 
> it
> counts... I'm about 25.  :-)
>
> Take care,
>
> John
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ken white [mailto:kenwhite at verizon.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:33 AM
>> To: john at valar.com
>> Subject: Re: Birthday coming soon
>>
>> 61 - woof,  that must mean I will be 51 soon.
>>
>> What are differences between 48 and 51    ?
>> Quantity of Hair and Hair color
>> Need glasses to read
>> Tinnitus
>> Injury's take longer to heal
>> Finding muscles not used in years to shovel snow
>> I listen to the blues more than rock and roll
>>
>> What do I have to look forward to over the next 10 years?
>>
>> On a side note:  How is the quality of the current release of
>> filepro?  DSI
>> has random blob/memo corruption problems on 5.6.06D4,
>> thinking of upgrading
>> them over the weekend with my fingers crossed.
>>
>> Happy Bday
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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