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Hello everyone. Hope all is good. I am currently have a issue with writing record to "history.dat" and it is giving me an error of "9/"

The program has been working fine for the last 15 years however last month when trying to update/write to the history.dat file it is giving me an error. I was able to resolve the problem by going into Net Express and performing the "Fix File Index".  That resolve the issue and I was able to update the history.dat file. 

Moving forward to today, when trying to update the history.dat file I was getting the same error so I did what I tried before to get it to work however am unsuccessful even though Net Express say that the "Rebuild successful. Records Processed = 73216.

I'm not sure what is going on and hope someone can shed some light into this issue. I'm determined that it is something to do with the index file.

Some more information:

The file information:

history.dat   =  25,169 KB

history.idx   = 3024 kb

I notice last month that if I updated the history.dat with 100 record, it would proceed without any error however if I updated the history.dat with 102 record, it would give me the error. I'm sure there is no size limitation on the file and the disk space isn't full.

At any rate, if someone can please help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

Hello everyone. Hope all is good. I am currently have a issue with writing record to "history.dat" and it is giving me an error of "9/"

The program has been working fine for the last 15 years however last month when trying to update/write to the history.dat file it is giving me an error. I was able to resolve the problem by going into Net Express and performing the "Fix File Index".  That resolve the issue and I was able to update the history.dat file. 

Moving forward to today, when trying to update the history.dat file I was getting the same error so I did what I tried before to get it to work however am unsuccessful even though Net Express say that the "Rebuild successful. Records Processed = 73216.

I'm not sure what is going on and hope someone can shed some light into this issue. I'm determined that it is something to do with the index file.

Some more information:

The file information:

history.dat   =  25,169 KB

history.idx   = 3024 kb

I notice last month that if I updated the history.dat with 100 record, it would proceed without any error however if I updated the history.dat with 102 record, it would give me the error. I'm sure there is no size limitation on the file and the disk space isn't full.

At any rate, if someone can please help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

can you use rebuild.exe for fix the problem?

you can write a little program to rebuild this manually, do you want a example or publish the file and select description!

zip the dat/idx and post it here


can you use rebuild.exe for fix the problem?

you can write a little program to rebuild this manually, do you want a example or publish the file and select description!

zip the dat/idx and post it here

Thank you Greiner for the reply. If you would be so kind to provide an example I would greatly appreciate it. 

When I do the rebuild in Net Express, it does the following extension

/o:ind

/s:mf

/r:f350

/k:1+22:23 +8d


Hello everyone. Hope all is good. I am currently have a issue with writing record to "history.dat" and it is giving me an error of "9/"

The program has been working fine for the last 15 years however last month when trying to update/write to the history.dat file it is giving me an error. I was able to resolve the problem by going into Net Express and performing the "Fix File Index".  That resolve the issue and I was able to update the history.dat file. 

Moving forward to today, when trying to update the history.dat file I was getting the same error so I did what I tried before to get it to work however am unsuccessful even though Net Express say that the "Rebuild successful. Records Processed = 73216.

I'm not sure what is going on and hope someone can shed some light into this issue. I'm determined that it is something to do with the index file.

Some more information:

The file information:

history.dat   =  25,169 KB

history.idx   = 3024 kb

I notice last month that if I updated the history.dat with 100 record, it would proceed without any error however if I updated the history.dat with 102 record, it would give me the error. I'm sure there is no size limitation on the file and the disk space isn't full.

At any rate, if someone can please help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

I would suggest to contact your local Micro Focus support to look into the issue.

If you are in North America, the number is 800-632-6265. For other locations, please see the following page for a list of numbers:

support.microfocus.com/.../supportline.html