I am getting NE1582 displayed when I try to delete an account and it just
goes back to displaying the account - even though I have answered the
questions to delete the account (N and Y).

Thanks

Eugene

On what platform?
Art

Eugene Perry wrote:

It is D3/NT 7.21.

Eugene

"Art Martz" <artmartz (AT) triad (DOT) rr.com> wrote

I delete and add accounts with D3/NT all the time, and have run into my
fair share of problems. Blanket Statement: Any time you delete or add an
account; reboot D3. No exceptions.

I have run into problems deleting accounts from TCL. For the problem
child, I usually (after shutting down D3) go into my computer, and
manually delete the sub-directory the account lives in, and then restart
D3, open the file manager (not the device manager, which is why D3 has
to be up and running), highlight the account pointer (now I going on
memory, so I may not have it exact), click on edit the data pointer, and
then delete the data pointer. Shut down D3. Double check that the
account directory is still actually gone. Reboot D3, and delete any
pointer in SYSTEM to the account.

Brute force, but it gets the account out of there. This *IS* assuming a
FSI account.

Art

Eugene Perry wrote:

Have alway deleted accounts only from within the dm account
and then logged out and back in immediately after deleting.

No other problems.

Doing a account-restore without logging out first, created havoc.

Thanks. Yes, all of my accounts are FSI. I am going to try and do a reload
and then try your idea out. For some strange reason, even if the accounts
have all been wiped out and D3 totally reloaded it still happens. I am
wondering if I need to do a reload of Windows. I suspect that there is
still some stray setting laying around.

Eugene

"Art Martz" <artmartz (AT) triad (DOT) rr.com> wrote

I can understand that. The file pointers are cached within Windows.
However, I am deleteing several accounts and then shutting down D3.
However, I have started getting a message and the account does not delete,
it just goes back into the file definition in the mds.

Eugene

"Kilo MicroAir" <kilomike[at]gci.net> wrote

Same situation sometimes appeared in D3 7.1.4 after 7.2(7.2.1)
I deleted FSI account in D3 ( N,Y) after I logoff and logon in need D3
account
Very interesing think I saw when I deleted FSI account and i was
located in same account - d3 delete Q link in SYSTEM file but didn't
delete account and after logoff ang logon in dm and execute follow
command sortc system with a1 = "D]" with a1 = "QS" I saw this account
and couldn't delete this account using D3 TCL utilies I can delete it
ONLY use D3 Utilities -> ...delete fsi account ...

I coudn't it in D3 7.3. RD works !?!

Dmitry

Make sure you're not getting hung up on the q-pointer.

There is the account if the FSI which you can delete with TCL or with the
FileManager. Then there's the q-pointer in the MDS file. DELETE-ACCOUNT
will not delete the q-pointer. While it's there, the system will think
there's an account there, even if there's nothing behind it.

Mark Brown


"Eugene Perry" <eperry1977noviruswanted (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote

Kilo MicroAir wrote:
Is this on an NT platform? Makes a HUGE difference.

Art