Newbie alert - Need to discover why Failing to Create Database File. V4RB 1.9.8 RB 5.2.2 OS-X.3

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 11/9/03 12:04 AM, Mike Dodd at doddme at mindspring.com wrote:

Hi Mike,

> I have a project I started under 5.2 RB and 1.9.7 Valentina V4RB and OS-X.2.
> I had been working on the user interface for quite some time and used the
> same database that I created earlier in my development, I called the most
> recent TODO10.   I had not been making database related changes so this
> version suited me.
> 
> Today I made some slight change to the database structure and of course now
> I have to create a new database to store that structure.   Well, It failed.

So you have switch to Panther?
BTW, how it fail? Crash? Error? Anything else?

I think this is a reason.
On V4RB beta page you can find V4RB_beta 1.10b10


> I rolled back to a version of my RB code I saved just before making the
> structure changes and just to verify that everything was okay I tried
> creating a new database with the old structure - to my surprise - It Failed
> Too.   So now I wonder, what the heck is going on?  I didn't make any
> changes that should have prevented my database from being created, except
> change the Operating System, the version of the compiler I'm using and the
> Plug-In for the database I'm using.  Hmmm, now to figure out if it's related
> to any of that, or is there some silly little coding issue involved.
> 
> Any ideas?  I am really pretty badly stumped here.  I cannot move on my
> development until I can change the structure of the Valentina database.
> 
> What I would like to see are some Error Messages.  I'm used to
> administrating an Oracle database and though the Oracle messages are a
> little vague sometimes, they can at least start you looking somewhere.   I
> see the result for creating a database is a boolean - it either did it, or
> it didn't, surely somewhere there are more clues than that, I just need a
> gentle point in the right direction.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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