Hi Alan,

 AH> All of a sudden, I'm having a problem with squish 
 AH> message areas.  For some reason, every day the .sqd 
 AH> files of some areas (different areas every day), which 
 AH> hold the messages, are renamed with the extension .~~~ 
 AH> and thus can't be read by my reader, by Bluewave, or 
 AH> online.  

The .~~~ suffix only lasts for a split second normally, so something rather
unusual is probably happening.... Are any processes that access the message
bases aborting? Check the timestamp of the file and compare that with ALL
your logs to see what prog was running around the time of the error. One
other possibility that I can think of, you may have an error on the HD that
is preventing the directory fron being completely updated at the time of
the error, a possiblle indication of a pending HD failure?

 AH> Using latest OS/2 versions of Max and Squish since they 
 AH> came out, and haven't changed anything.

When you say "Latest versions", WHICH versions exactly
(executabel date & timestamp), Max 3.01 came out around 1995 but a Y2k
release came out in 1999.

Cheers.............pk.


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