unreliable file deletion via script

[Mark Talluto]

On May 10, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Kurt Kaufman wrote:

> I have a group of  950 small (25k) record stacks, each of which  
> contains a separate business account. I have 2 shared stacks  
> "PPR.rev" and "paymentReceipt.rev", as well as two "anchor"  
> standalones.  The standalones serve only as navigational tools to  
> open up PPR and paymentReceipt.  From PPR, it is possible to open  
> any of the 950 record stacks.
>
> Whenever any stack is opened, it creates (from a preopencard  
> script) a Busy*.txt file, such as "BusypaymentReceipt.txt".  This  
> is to prevent more than one person accessing a stack at a time.
> All of the stacks have in their closestack script that which  
> deletes the Busy file, for instance:
>
> if there is a file "BusypaymentReceipt.txt" then delete file  
> "BusypaymentReceipt.txt"
>
> This almost always works perfectly, but sometimes, a closing stack  
> for some reason fails to delete its Busy file.  I can manually  
> delete the file if needed, but that's obviously not what I  
> intended, and I certainly don't want to ask anyone else to do so!   
> Does anyone have any ideas why the busy file deletion is not  
> entirely reliable?  Script problem?
>
> I have this app in operation on WinXP Pro, and the stacks and  
> standalones were built using Rev 2.02.  I do have Rev 2.5.1 on Mac  
> OSX, so I suppose I could recreate the


Hi Kurt,

You might try deleting as you have.  On the very next line, try:   
wait 10 ticks.  This will cause Rev to do its thing and wait for a  
moment.  My might try adjusting that value to better suit your  
needs.  This is just a guess.  It is what I would try first at least.



Mark Talluto
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