dbase5 indexing

[trunner]

Anyone have a solution to Dbase5 shutting down when indexing records on XP

 

[dbMark]

Anyone have a solution to Dbase5 shutting down when indexing records on XP

I use dBase 5 for DOS quite a bit and have had no shut-down problems on Windows XP or even earlier versions of Windows. Now this is not to say there aren't issues that arise in certain combinations of Windows/network/storage environments. But your brief one-line question does not provide enough information for an educated answer. Please provide more information such as:

Is this stand-alone or on a network? If a network, which type and version and does it use file compression? (I ask about file compression because I had to work around that issue a few years ago on a Novell server which had those index files compressed.

Does indexing fail all the time or only sometimes? If just sometimes, what are the differences between the two? Is the file shared and in use by others at the same time?

Does this happen at the dBase command line or within a program or both? Do you have lots of other tables open at the same time too?

Do you get an error number, error message(s), or any other warning?

Does the computer shut down all on its own, or just lock up?

 

[trunner]

The program is running locally and the only time it dose not kick me out is when I have deleted a couple hundred record before indexing

 

[trunner]

The problem occurs no matter how I run the command and there are no error messages it just shuts down then I have to reopen Dbase and delete records and try again