Progress error

[karel schoonjan]

Hallo,
i'm having a problem with renaming a file.
we export data to ASCII files so they can be imported by another application, this application scans a directory for new files. To avoid that the application starts reading a file before it is completly ready we first write it to a temporary file and at the end do a os-rename. As this didn't always work we used the os-error to see wath went wrong, and we got error number 999
(Unmapped error (Progress default)), this is a really clear error, does anyone got the same error, or does anyone know what this error means?
thx

 

[DevTeam]

http://progress.atgnow.com/esprogre...+returns+OS-ERROR+999&resultType=5002#Goto109
http://progress.atgnow.com/esprogre...eturns+error+code+999&resultType=5002#Goto165

According to the posts provided by the links above, it seems that your file is still being used when you try to rename it...

Do you do an OS-RENAME ? If so, and if you are sure your ascii file is complete, try OS-COPY first, OS-DELETE then, it may resolve your problem

 

[karel schoonjan]

Hi DevTeam,

thank you for the fast answer. I downloaded progressKB and found an KB (P47820) telling the same thing you do. I'll adapt my source and try it with os-copy an os-delete
greetZ
ks

 

[DevTeam]

Maybe I could apply for a job at Progress ! :lol:

About Copy / delete, it could be a way to fix your bug, but I think it would be safe to find the reason why your file remains used by another thread...
And Copy/Delete supposes to create the temp file out of the target folder, which could imply rights restrictions...