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[Kenneth Brody]

On 5/18/2011 1:30 PM, flowersoft at compuserve.com wrote:
>> Well, it turns out that 5.0.12DN9 does trigger a freechain rebuild, but it
>
>> does it so fast, I didn't see it unless I set PFBLDFREE=ON.
>
> So now you have a "demonstrable case" that if the freechain message is on
> the screen
> and you try to add records from another filePro session, that session will
> 'hang'.

Yes, if you set PFBLDFREE=ON, and leave the popup message on the screen when 
it appears, then the freechain is locked, and other sessions trying to 
add/delete records in that file will hang.  However, that is not the case 
that people have been reporting.  People have been reporting that during the 
rebuild things hang, or the rebuild constantly restarts.

> And, if another session is already add record mode before the freechain
> message comes on the
> Screen, that session will 'hang' as soon as it tries to save a record and
> the
> Freechain process will then fail when the user presses the % key, producing
> this error message:
>
> *** A System Error Has Occurred ***
> /filepro/test/key: Error Number -1
> Windows error #33:
> The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a
> portion
> of the file.

It must be the "special" filePro version that you have, as my 5.0.12DN9 will 
rebuild the freechain upon pressing "%", and release the waiting add-records 
process.

-- 
Kenneth Brody