Can't create file

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/11/05 3:30 PM, Phil Davis wrote:

> A few months ago I had an intermittent file creation problem related to 
> the HD spinning down after a certain period of idle time. I corrected it 
> by first (before trying to save) getting the 'detailed files' in the 
> target directory. That forced the HD to spin up and then the write would 
> succeed. That was on XP but the principle still applies.
> 
> Don't know if your symptom could have a similar cause, but I thought it 
> was worth sharing.

Thanks -- I never would have thought of this. I'm not sure how you did. :)

I'll ask the client whether the program had been paused for a while 
before the error occurred. You may be on to something here.

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> Phil Davis
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> 
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> J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> I have a client with a problem I can't figure out, and am hoping 
>> someone here may know the answer.
>>
>> A standalone creates a text file in the same folder as the 
>> application. This works fine almost all the time on all platforms. 
>> However, very rarely, we get an error message on Win98 "can't open 
>> that file". If the handler is repeated immediately, the file does get 
>> created. This has happened only twice out of hundreds of successful 
>> attempts. The machine is not networked, so no one else could have had 
>> the file open.
>>
>> The script basically just calculates a file path, then does "open file 
>> <path> for write". That's when the error occurs.
>>
>> Anyone know what would cause this failure, which corrects itself on a 
>> second attempt? We have only seen it on Win98.
>>
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