Deleting a lockfile

[Kenneth Brody]

On 4/5/2011 4:26 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> Can deleting a manually deleting a lockfile, using windows file manager,
> while the file is in use also delete demand indexes and processing tables?

(Assuming that the first "deleting a" was a typo.)

No.

It can, of course, cause other problems, such as allowing an index 
definition to be changed, or the file restructured, while someone is using 
the file.

[...]
> 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.

Then they didn't delete just the lockfile, did they?

My shot-in-the-dark out-of-the-blue guess...

The shift-clicked on "lockfile", thereby selecting everything from the 
currently-selected item (which defaults to the first filename) through the 
lockfile.  And, given that there probably weren't any J, K, or L files 
(aside from "lockfile"), that could be seen as "everything in that folder 
starting with A through I".

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Kenneth Brody