Hi Anne Page, hope you are having a nice day
30-Aug-96 20:49:00, Anne Page wrote to All
          Subject: AVOIDING GEOFILE LOCKUPS
 AP> I think the way I do my save and exit is what keeps me from having
 AP> these lockups and problems getting back into the Geofile database.
 AP> To put it succinctly, I never ask GEOS to do a large save at the same
 AP> time I am asking to exit.  When I know I am ready to leave, I do a
 AP> save.  Then I move forward to the next record or backward to the
 AP> previous record.  Then I click on "close" and, when the menu asks
 AP> if I want to save or discard, I tell it to "save" and GEOS saves
 AP> the information that I moved my cursor one record forward or backward
 AP> and exits me out to the desktop.  I *never* choose "exit" instead of
 AP> "close" and I *never* close with an instruction to "save" after having
 AP> done a lot of revision or new entry work on the data records.  I
 AP> *always* do the big save first and then do something simple like
 AP> moving to another record and close with the little save.
Good one, Anne! Since you use Ensemble 2.0 not 2.01 and don't have a
problem, there has to be something that you do that works and this
appears to be it. So all you lurkers out there, make a note of the
above, you never know when you might need it!
Regards
Pensey
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