Re: Back-up - access denied
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Posted by Mark on April 02, 2001 at 08:55:59:
In Reply to: Re: Back-up - access denied posted by Bob Jarvis on March 31, 2001 at 22:16:50:
: : : : : : Mark : : : : : : When backing up I often (say 50% of backups) get a message "access is denied", and following that, "could not copy xxx.dat" for one or two stocks. The stocks are different each time this occurs. Is this a bug or is there a setting I am not aware of? It has occurred with FM 3 and 4, as well as the latest version. : : : : : : Thanks, : : : : : : Bob : : : : : Hi Bob,
: : : : : There is no setting for this. One thing to check is that you don't have a
: : : : : file there already that is marked as "Read-Only"? Are you backing up to a
: : : : : floppy or something else? : : : : : Thanks,
: : : : : Mark : : : Mark : : : I have this morning backed up to floppy and had two stocks with the "access denied" message. I repeated the backup - cleared the disc using Wind Expl - this time only one "access denied", the same as the second of the two previous rejects. This is not a major problem but is annoying! : : : regards : : : Bob: : -- : : : : Mark
: : : : I am backing up on to floppy (4 in fact). I erase the floppys using windows explorer (select all/delete). The stocks affected seem random. Next time I back-up I will do it twice to see if the same stocks are affected when backing up a second time in close succession. However on my weekly back ups about half the time the problem does not occur at all. : : : : Regards : : : : Bob
: : : : : Mark Beiley
: : : : :
: : : : : Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00
: : : : :
: : : : : : : Hi Bob,
: : If you look at your disk after the backup is it full? FM checks for
: : sufficient disk space on floppies before copying, and if there isn't enough
: : room, it will ask you to insert another disk. I'm wondering if this is
: : related to running out of room, or something else. If you look to see how
: : much empty space is left on the floppy that would help. Do you only need
: : 1 floppy to back up your investments?
: : The other possibility is that your floppy is bad, or maybe your floppy
: : drive is going bad? : : Thanks,
: : Mark
: : --
: : Mark Beiley
: :
: : Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00
: :
: : : Mark : Acouple of further observations on this problem: : 1) I need four disks dor BU
: 2) The problem occurs when a disk is nearly full. However after instructing the BU to continue, some further BUs appear to occur
: 3) Even though I am told the stock could not be backed up, in fact it is on the BU disk. Whether it is complete I cannot say.
: 4) the offending dat files are not unusually large, but even if they were, wouldn't FM check that sufficient disk space was available?
: 5) I don't have any evidence that the disk drive is on the way out : To further investigate this problem, would it be useful to temporarily copy the FM dat file elsewhere, and copy the BU version into the data file, then use FM to see if it is OK?? : Thanks : Bob Hi Bob,
Thanks for the info. It shouldn't matter how many disks, and yes FM
does check before copying each investment. It also leaves a little extra
buffer space just to ensure there is enough room. Maybe for some reason this
is not enough buffer. Would you like to test out a beta version with an
increased buffer size? Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Beiley
Fund Manager, portfolio management software for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/00
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