Subject Re: corrupted file? From Charlie <tm@tc.com> Date Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:55:35 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Hi Mervyn...  I seem to be seeing them now on this computer only but normally I don't.  I don't see them on other computers now.  My problem with dbase freezing and closing on a particular form is only on this computer.  it works fine on other computers.  I even did an inno from this computer, ran the setup on a different computer and it worked fine.  I did a repair for windows and reinstalled dbase2019.  Problem still exists for this computer only.  Something is wrong.  Oh error message boxes sometimes are blank.  Hoping someone else has run into this.  Could be this computer problem or dbase software problem.  Sorta driving me nuts! Mervyn Bick Wrote: > On 2025/03/30 18:27, Charlie wrote: > > I noticed a number of qsql.dbf files on the affected computer.  Thank goodness I copied the directory to another computer yesterday and it seems to work fine there.  I think something in dbase is corrupted as i copied the two files from my backup to the affected computer and it does the same thing.  I am hoping that installing dbase again will help fix the problem.  Any opinions? > > The _qsqlnnn.dbf files are temporary files created by the BDE.  Normal > housekeeping should delete them when dBASE closes but they often get > abandoned.  dBASE can only handle 1000 of these files and once that many > are in the directory dBASE has a problem.  You can safely delete these > files, preferably when dBASE isn't running so that you know they aren't > actually being used. > > Mervyn.