Abnormal Quit Issues
jda
jda at his.com
Wed Jul 27 11:25:58 CDT 2005
>We've been experiencing a fair amount of data loss when we quit our
>application abnormally. Normally I wouldn't be concerned too much
>about it since we're in development phase and all sorts of bad
>things happen.
>
>However, yesterday, one of the beta testers opened a screen up that
>simply viewed some records. He hadn't added any new data, deleted
>anything and then simply force-quit the application to see what
>would happen. I've verified that there is no record locking going
>on when viewing the data. He then opened the database again and
>could visibly see some data not there.
>
>What can we do to minimize this risk? Has anyone else see this behavior?
>
>RB 2005 using 2.05fc5 on Tiger.
>
I have found more than once that when I abort in the RB debugger the
db is trashed, event though it was not in the middle of a read/write.
In fact, I have one that was trashed in this way that actually
reported as OK with diagnose, but crashes my app when I try to open
it (no log).
Jon
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