Paul Newton wrote on 2017-03-30:
Hi all
I have noticed something rather worrying of late which I have _never_
come across before. It is not reproducible and I can't be at all sure what might be causing the problem.
The problem manifests itself when attempting to edit or run a previously
good report (valid FRT and FRX). VFP complains that the FRX is missing but lo and behold when I look in the reports folder I can see the FRT and a temp file with the same date/timestamp and a name similar to 0005UVIH02KM.TMP. If I rename this temp file to give it the same name as the FRT but with an FRX extension then everything is restored back to normal.
This is really weird and I wondered if anybody else had ever seen
anything similar
Paul Newton
Paul,
We found this problem with DBF's during a PACK command. It was caused by an anti-virus program locking the files after it was copied to a new one. The rename back (all internal in VFP) silently failed.
You might have the same problem. Can you set the anti-virus program from scanning the folder where the report files are? We also help customers set exceptions for DBF,FPT, CDX files. We might need to add FRT and FRX to that list someday. Not many of our customers use VFP reports.
Tracy Pearson PowerChurch Software