Dear Mark & Richard

Many thanks for your suggestions. I tried uncompressing the Microsoft SQL Server folder, and I got much further than I had before. But eventually, right at the end, I got this message to say that it couldn't handle compressed files in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SIL\FieldWorks\Data and please do something about it before trying to run the program. (Running the program just brought up the same message.)

But, the problem was I couldn't find the Application Data folder anywhere, either on C: drive or on D: which is where I installed the program. I got as far as C:\Documents and Settings\All Users, but that was the end. Finally, I tried creating the Application Data folder only to be told it already existed. So it turned out to be a  hidden folder. Once I discovered that I was able to go in and uncheck the compression in the Data folder too. After that, FLEX loaded happily.

So many thanks to you both for your help.
Bruce
From: Academic Computing SEB
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 9:30 PM
To: flex-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: [FLEx] Re: Dell Mini 9

Sounds as though the SSD disk is set to compress everything as it's default setting. I've set my hard disk to compress everything before when I was running out of space and got the same messages.
Try opening Windows Explorer and navigating to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\"  (if it's not there create it), then right click on the folder and select "Properties" from the pop-up menu. On the "General" tab click on the "Advanced" button. In the 'Compress or Encrypt attributes' section the 'Compress contents to save disk space' checkbox is probably checked. Uncheck this this box, click on the 'OK' and' Apply' buttons. Then try reinstalling Fieldworks. It should fly through everything upto SQL installation and hopefully this time should work.

Mark Skinner