RE: Paradox 10 hanging since upgra

in general, p9/10/11 run fine under win10

is there a pattern to the problem? specific process? specific tables? specific users?

have you done the ordinary table repair tests, to see if there are any underlying problems?

properly shared net file, cfg file, shared tables, etc., should work fine

Steven Green
Senior Software Engineer
Paradox Support Specialist DOS/WIN

paradox should be installed on each machine.. not sure how complete the registry entries are by cloning.. or how many of the registry entries you're avoiding by using a good cfg file, either..

upgrade or not, patterns can show that a particular table has issues.. patterns can show that printing might be an issue.. patterns can show that specific users are creating issues

we are also finding generic issues with SMB2 vs SMB1, and the differences in how they handle oplocks and caching.. this could be a biggie, but the information comes in slowly now

Steven Green
Senior Software Engineer
Paradox Support Specialist DOS/WIN

sometimes, the "detective work" requires a serious understanding of the app and its' structure

we had an issue on one app recently, where paradox would hang when the user did a specific common search.. there was a table linked to the main table on a sec index.. the sec index in the linked table was hosed.. most searches on that field were ok, but that specific common search caused an "out of range" error

Steven Green
Senior Software Engineer
Paradox Support Specialist DOS/WIN

yes, Verify can miss things.. run Verify first.. look at the Errors table in the priv, it gives a little more detail than the regular screen.. then Rebuild

Steven Green
Senior Software Engineer
Paradox Support Specialist DOS/WIN

I highly recommend running that like this

istablecorrupt(tablename, tablename+" errors")

so you can look at the results.. it's just running Verify with the built-in Errors table.. the results can be meaningful

first, ignore all the "low ascii" stuff, that's NOT meaningful.. it matters, over time and over the batch, if you're getting errors in the indexes or in the tables

let us know what you see

Steven Green
Senior Software Engineer
Paradox Support Specialist DOS/WIN

drive letters are fine, as long as they're all the same

if it's dropping out, check for network cards that have "sleep" modes, machines that go into "sleep" mode, etc

Steven Green
Senior Software Engineer
Paradox Support Specialist DOS/WIN

Chimney Sweep.. but for most folks, I say that you don't want an automated routine cuz it makes it more likely that you won't actually look at the results after the repair.. REAL damage will show easily, via bad number and date values and/or missing records

Steven Green
Senior Software Engineer
Paradox Support Specialist DOS/WIN