freechn

[Chris Sellitto]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:58 AM
> To: Chris Sellitto; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: freechn
> 
> On 3/6/2015 9:17 AM, Chris Sellitto wrote:
> [...]
> > On the topic of Freechains, what are the most common causes for
> > freechains to occur?  We seem to be getting them here at our facility
> > on a daily basis.  We have 5.7.03, running on a Windows environment.
> > We have disabled the Window's ability to use the "X" to close a
> window.
> > Where else can we look?
> 
> The only thing I can think of (aside from network or hardware errors)
> would be to DELETE an unprotected lookup record while someone else was
> updating that record.
> 
> Closing the window via the "x" wouldn't do it, as the Windows version of
> filePro treats that basically the same way it treats Ctrl-\ on *nix, and
> "cleans up" before exiting.  (Even if it didn't, unless Windows killed
> the process at the exact microsecond that filePro was updating the
> freechain, it wouldn't cause freechain errors.)
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody

Thank you Ken,

I have long thought that it may be Hardware/Network related.  I will need to talk to my Network Admin. to discuss this possibility.

Chris Sellitto