[Access 97 Not Enough Space On Temporary Disk
Amancio Mccrae
"Not enough space on temporary disk. (Error 3183)"
"You tried to perform an operation that requires more space than is available on the temporary disk. Your temporary disk location is based on the TEMP DOS environment variable, which was set when your system started."
I am using Access 2007 as a front end. The database is on SQL Server 2008.This happens when I am using a form which it's record source is a SQL query and am going to a specific record using the navigation control. The table has about half a million records.I am on XP SP3 with 4GB RAM and there is 1 GB free.
You might also be able to force the query to run on the SQL Server side; which I think happens by default but can be thwarted by an inefficient query (e.g., a calling a function that returns varchar in the where clause)
DBCC SQLPERF(logspace) will give u only the details of the log file. u can check it using sp_helpdb and check the size parameter. most likely you need to truncate the log of the tempdb so free up space.
As to the OS-level temp folder, "out of disk space" message is often symptomatic of "access denied to that folder" - meaning either there is NO temp directory environment variable, the variable is incorrect or pointing to something that doesn't exist, or the credentials you're operating under doesn't have access to the folder.
After using the top percent to update the Access table, i realized that it updates a max of only 9.5 percent at one go without throwing the error. Which is approx. 73,000 records being updated in Access without any problem.
Well, that should be plenty of space shouldn't it! But perhaps there's an Access-specific problem here. I see plenty of search results when I search on "[Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][ODBC Socket][Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Not enough space on temporary disk." I'd take a look at the answer provided at the end of the first result:
It lists three things to do: disable "maintain connections" in your datasource settings, limit the number of connections, and restrict the connection pool to 1. It seems to me that if you do the first one you shouldn't have to do the others, but I honestly haven't tried it.
However, even if you solve the problem, you can be sure you will encounter this same, or some other, MS Access problem again in future. The ODBC Microsoft Access Driver is outdated. Plus, there is very little support for it out there.
Replacing the ODBC Microsoft Access Driver with UCanAccess as your Access driver is a worthwhile investment of your time. In so doing, you will not only solve the current problem, but also future-proof your application.
You can certainly do all of those things. Unless you have multiple partitions, they'll all point to some location on the single drive which has plenty of space free. But if you do have multiple partitions, say for example your system/OS stuff on C and other stuff on D, I wouldn't be surprised if your C drive is full and your environment variables still point to C.
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