A Problem Using Filepro

[Harold Faulkner]

On 4/16/2013 11:52 AM, Steve Wiltsie wrote:
> Harold,
>
> First, thank you for your service and Welcome Home.   When and where did
> you serve?
>
> If I had this situation, I would probably first run the freechain
> program on the file just to be sure it was OK.  I would then check to
> see if there were any "Save" commands in the Automatic or Input
> processing that might be hit before a record was displayed.  If all else
> fails, you can always pick an important field and make it "must fill" by
> replacing the * in front of the field on the screen with a %.
>
> Steve Wiltsie
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: filepro-list-bounces+swiltsie=micro-mui.com at lists.celestial.com
>> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+swiltsie=micro-
>> mui.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Harold Faulkner
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:30 AM
>> To: 'FilePro Mailing List'
>> Subject: A Problem Using Filepro
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been aware of this problem for some time, but it appears worse
>> now.  The problem is the Record Number when entering a new record.
>>
>> My Navy Reunion Group uses Filepro to list all men who served aboard
>> our Destroyer, The U.S.S McCaffery DDE860 and I keep the master copy
> of
>> Filepro, and the master list of crewmembers and officers.
>>
>> The problem is blank records in the list.  For some reason when we go
>> to add a new member to the list, Filepro skips a record, and places
> the
>> data on the next record.
>>
>> I just checked and we have 1896 records in the McCaffery file, but
> when
>> I go to add a person, he will go on record 1898, instead of record
>> 1897.
>>
>> How can I keep this from happening?  As I said earlier, this problem
>> seems to be worse.
>>
>> Harold
>>

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the thanks.  I was aboard the McCaffery from June 1950 to 
September 1952.  That shows my age.  I was transferred to the McCaffery 
because she was to leave immediately for the Mediterranean and she 
needed a full crew.  From the Mediterranean we went through the Suez 
Canal and to Formosa, now Taiwan, and patrolled the strait between 
Formosa and China for a few months.  Then we went to Korea for a few 
months.  Finally we left for Hawaii. and the Panama Canal and back home 
to the U.S.

I mentioned the problem getting worse, and what you said reminds me of 
when I tried to prevent this problem by the code change that if the 
first name or second name were blank than save = off.  And then if both 
fields 1 and 2, last name and first name, were not blank that turn on 
save, which may have been the problem, and I did not check what SAVE ON 
actually did.  Now I will check.

Thanks for the email.

Harold