I have a classroom lab that is networked. When students try to save their work, two things are occurring sporadically. As students click to save, all of their work is automatically deleted with no questions asked. They are left with a blank page. Other students click save and FP just completely closes. This is frustrating for students and me. I will be appreciative of any advice you have to offer.
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FP loses work/program closes while saving
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I used to have that problem, and it only occurred in FP2000. It seemed to go away in FP-XP and haven't seen it in FP2003 either. At the time I used FP2000, I searched routinely for the cause at to no avail, but maybe there is something there now.
Aside from upgrading the versions of FP everyone is using, here is the workaround I used:
1) I noticed it was only occurring when using the 'save as' function, usually after starting with a generic new page.
2) I saved a blank page as "_template.htm" and instead of opening a new blank page, I copied that file to a new page.
3) I then renamed the new copied page to whatever the page name was I intended to use.
4) I opened my new page under the correct file name, made my changes, then used the 'Save' command instead of 'Save As'.
A little lengthy, but it worked every time and never saw that problem again.
As to the cause, it happened when I brought up the 'Save As' dialog box and it seemed to hang while displaying the remote directory and file list. I believe the server was timing out while in the middle of retrieving the lengthy file structure, as I don't remember it happening when starting from a subdirectory with few files in it. Maybe if you tried changing the time-out values per connection on the webserver, just a thought.
*NOTE* When creating a new page using the File>New>Page command, choosing 'Save' calls the 'Save As' command anyhow, so you would still be correct that it happens during the 'Save' process, even though it isn't likely to happen when using 'Save' in my method.
Jim Schuuz
{ F1 = my.friend
}
Aside from upgrading the versions of FP everyone is using, here is the workaround I used:
1) I noticed it was only occurring when using the 'save as' function, usually after starting with a generic new page.
2) I saved a blank page as "_template.htm" and instead of opening a new blank page, I copied that file to a new page.
3) I then renamed the new copied page to whatever the page name was I intended to use.
4) I opened my new page under the correct file name, made my changes, then used the 'Save' command instead of 'Save As'.
A little lengthy, but it worked every time and never saw that problem again.
As to the cause, it happened when I brought up the 'Save As' dialog box and it seemed to hang while displaying the remote directory and file list. I believe the server was timing out while in the middle of retrieving the lengthy file structure, as I don't remember it happening when starting from a subdirectory with few files in it. Maybe if you tried changing the time-out values per connection on the webserver, just a thought.
*NOTE* When creating a new page using the File>New>Page command, choosing 'Save' calls the 'Save As' command anyhow, so you would still be correct that it happens during the 'Save' process, even though it isn't likely to happen when using 'Save' in my method.
Jim Schuuz
{ F1 = my.friend
}
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