What would cause FP to freeze when adding a record?

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Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Boaz Bezborodko done said:
>   I have some automated operations that import orders from from
> customer-supplied files.  This morning I noticed that not all of them had
> run so I tried running one manually.  It seems that nothing can open a
> new and that the window freezes whenever I try to add a record to that
> file.

Can you otherwise access the file (ie., not adding a record, but looking
through records or performing other operations against it), or not?

> I know that the computer that runs this automatically still has the file
> open, but I don't know what state it's in and I won't get to it till
> tomorrow morning.  In the meantime, what would cause this to happen?
>
> I'm running FP 5.6 Windows looking to a Samba fileserver.

If you can't do -anything- with the file (and/or other files on the same
mounted filesystem), sounds like the mount went stale or otherwise
inoperable.  If your clients were on a *nix box, it'd be easy enough to see
if the D (disk wait state) was pinned on the clerk/report binary instances.
Checking that in Windows is difficult at best.

If you can't add records -at all- but can do other things, well...my first
instinct is to check disk space free...is there any on that share's
underlying filesystem?

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