"Insufficient disk space" error

Frank Marousek

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Dec 28, 2006, 10:27:50 AM12/28/06

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We have recently migrated our application to a dedicated server with plenty
of disk space. Our app uses dBase files and it written with Delphi 5 Pro. It
has been running without problem on this new server for about a week now.

Suddenly this morning we are getting "insufficient disk space" errors. I've
double checked and the drive where the data files are located has over 100
GB free space. The error occurs when attempting to open a relatively simple
query. The exception is class EDBEngineError with message "insufficient disk
space".

Is there somewhere I should be looking for the cause of such an error? At
the moment I am at a loss and our company has come to a standstill without
this application.

Frank Marousek

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Dec 28, 2006, 10:36:25 AM12/28/06

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I should have mentioned that the same error occurs on all workstations. At
first I suspected maybe the local disk drive was being used to generate the
query and was lacking space, but if the same error is occurring on multiple
machines that seems an unlikely cause.

Frank Marousek

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Dec 28, 2006, 11:04:33 AM12/28/06

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I had no idea it was a common problem, but I'm certainly glad to hear that
it is.

May I bother you to instruct me as to how one goes about searching the
newsgroup archives?

Rick Carter

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Dec 28, 2006, 11:48:07 AM12/28/06

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This is a known problem, and has been discussed much in threads in this
forum, in borland.public.bde, and in other forums. Search the newsgroup
archives for "insufficient disk space" or "4G limit" and you'll find
plenty. There are also suggested work-arounds, and I think one is
a download available from Code Central.

Rick Carter
cart...@despammed.com
Chair, Delphi/Paradox SIG, Cincinnati PC Users Group

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Bill Todd

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Dec 28, 2006, 11:24:52 AM12/28/06

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Frank Marousek wrote:

Go to http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

--
Bill Todd (TeamB)

Rick Carter

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Dec 28, 2006, 12:17:38 PM12/28/06

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>May I bother you to instruct me as to how one goes about searching the
>newsgroup archives?

Start with the links here:
http://info.borland.com/newsgroups/ngsearch.html

Frank Marousek

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Dec 28, 2006, 12:14:55 PM12/28/06

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Thank you Bill and Rick.

I found this on "Rick's dBase page" (www.goldenstag.net/dbase/#Source)...
has anyone used this fix and care to comment?

BDE "Insufficient disk space" Error Fix
The BDE in all releases earlier than 5.2.0.2 (the version that ships with
dBASE Plus 2.5 and later) and later releases one assumes, has an error that
can occur if you or your users have free disk space on the hard drive that
is an exact increment of 4 gigabytes (i.e., 4, 8, 12, 16 ...). The file
BDE4GigFix.zip includes the .DLL file that solves this issue (it's a "patch"
for the BDE), and also a small program that will load it. Details are in the
file "BDEFix.prg" contained in the .zip file. Note that if you have dBASE
Plus 2.5 or later, this should not be an issue, and you do not need this
file.

Roon

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Dec 30, 2006, 9:18:58 PM12/30/06

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I ran into the problem on occasion and just copied some file to the drive to
change the size of the free disk space. It happened so infrequently, that
the biggest issue I had was to remember what to do when it happened..

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