.rar file?

[Erbium]

Hi everyone

We have some production reports that I developed, haven't touched in a while. User today complained that running slow, didn't come up with any records at the end, and it produced a file with the report name and '.rar' in the directory the report is in.

Does this indicate an error occured, even tho they didn't mention any error messages?

I looked in the file, is binary with only the report name readable near the top.

 

[CR85user]

Has the output file been compressed with winrar?

'J

 

[Erbium]

no, just display on screen so user can print this.

the .rar file just shows up after taking long time to run.

I just looked and .rpt had not been modified for almost a year.

I tried running it and the parameters box doesn't go away after hitting 'ok'. the bottom part says 'accessing database' as normal, but on other reports, the param box goes away after hitting OK. So I'm thinking that the .rpt file became corrupted somehow, we had a power outage for example a week ago and the main UPS didn't hold, was a problem so servers went down hard.

 

[Erbium]

I reran this report and it ran OK. User complained was taking a while but it has subreports, took 20 minutes.

They only run this once a year. The .rar file seems to indicate an error, I'm guessing that maybe PC was flaky - low on memory, etc; She only reboots 2x a week or so.

So end result report ran OK but weird file produced. Maybe this is some unintended export type she clicked on instead of .xls?