Deleting a lockfile

[Richard Kreiss]

Can deleting a manually deleting a lockfile, using windows file manager,
while the file is in use also delete demand indexes and processing tables?

This occurred when their call center manager went in a deleted the lockfile
while the file was in use by 20 users.

One of my clients called that he was getting an error message about a field
not found and something about index W in that file.  He rebuilt the index.

I logged into his system to check the input program which uses @entsel.
When I checked the auto processing table, it was missing.

I went to the file manager and noted that everything in that folder stating
with A through I but not including index.n was missing. Also the 10 demand
indexes were gone.

I was able to restore all of the missing items from my test system and make
2 small changes to programs that I had modified today so they are back up
and running.

They are now going to check with their outside systems people about locking
out users from being able to delete anything in fp or filepro folders.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net