I have a multi-file solution in FMP5, I've scripted a backup procedure that
goes to each file & saves a copy of the file, this way there's no duplicate
files on any of the drives.

This was working fine up until a week ago. Now we get a message as the
script backs up each file "There may not be enough disk space to complete
this operation. Filemaker will not be able to open the file if this
operation fails. Proceed any way?"

The drive has 86.5gb of free space & the entire solution is only 26mb.
We're running it on W2K SP4, this drive is formatted with NTFS. If you
click Yes to the message, the file does save to the hard drive. It's just a
pain clicking Yes 15 times to back up all the files.

Any hints?

I assume the drive is not partitioned?
What happens if you set error capture on in your script and then check
for that specific error code?

Yes the drive is partitioned. C drive is 10gb & D drive (where files are
stored) is 110gb with 86.5gb of free space

I'll capture the error code & see what it reveals

"FP" <a (AT) pottnerconsulting (DOT) ca> wrote

Betcha the first (system) partition has run out of temporary space.

Bill

"Confused" <ibs611 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

In article <435f5683$0$77092$c30e37c6 (AT) ken-reader (DOT) news.telstra.net>,
"Confused" <ibs611 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

One possible explanation, although this is more of a general thing about
Windows and I don't know for sure if FMP is among the things that are
tripped up by it, is that you have to make sort of an extra effort to
find out about free space when the disk size takes more than 32 bits to
represent. For a program that doesn't make the effort, they may believe
that the amount of free space is the real amount modulo 4,294,967,296.
So depending on what the exact count is for the "86.5GB" you cite, it
may be that FMP has that weakness and the free space is close enough to
a 4GB multiple that it thinks there's hardly any space.

If a programmer is aware of the 4GB issue, reporting that "there may not
be enough space" is a cheesy way out of having to read an extra page of
documentation.

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The error code is 809 - Disk/volume is full.

I've checked W2K's security, that drive & the folder have full read/write
access.

Also the first partition (10gb) has 6.2gb of free space.

I think the next step is to back up & format the drive & see if that fixes
it

Thanks to those who've replied


Confused


"Bill Marriott" <wjm (AT) wjm (DOT) org> wrote