I have a client that has mapped all his employees’ personal documents folders to the server. Each employee using my application exe is running the software from a local installation on their PC with their database in a subfolder of their documents folder on the server. On one PC that has been in place for at least a year (Win 7 Pro), the user is getting random errors that are corrupting the database (all other users are fine). It showed up first as an “Error reading file” but then a copy, zap and append “cleanup” failed. Other users with the same setup (not necessarily all Win7, though) are not having any problems.
I grabbed a copy of their database to work on it and found a number of tables generating “fields do not match DBC” types of errors. I fixed all that by bringing in empty files from the installation set and appending from the originals and the database opened without a problem. Now she has gotten another “error reading file,” so I recommended that they temporarily move the database to a folder on her local drive for further observation.
This user may have first begun to have problems as their server disk was running out of space (down to about 200K, if I remember correctly), but this was cleaned up to where they have about 1.5 gigs free. Any suggestions as to what else we might check? Thanks for any input.