What would cause FP to freeze when adding a record?

[Boaz Bezborodko]

> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:20:12 -0400
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> Subject: Re: 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?
>
> mark->
> -- Audio panton, cogito singularis.
It was a full disk.  By the time I go to work someone else had tried to 
run an operation and got a disk-full error message from FP.

(Samba was saving all deleted files in a Trash directory.  E-mail files 
can really build up when they are being deleted after a rebuild and I 
was remiss in taking out the trash.)

Boaz