Error Accessing database split into many files

girish.joshi

Hi,

I working with a proprietary Navision database that is 15gb in size and split over 8 files. Prior to performing an upgrade to Navision 4.0, the database was copied, using hotcopy, to another location on the drive but with the same file names. The original database was upgraded to 4.0 from 3.01.

4.0 clients can connect to the new database files without any problem.

However, when I try to connect with 3.01 client to the old database files (in a new location, with a new zup file), i point it at the first db file, and I receive an error message telling me that the second database file is already in use. One problem though, the second database file is the wrong one! it's looking in the original location of files!

Is there anything I can do about this? I'm guessing that somewhere in the header of the first file the path information is encoded, and after the files were copied and moved, this path information became invalid, but since we had new files there, with the same name, it thinks it the right stuff.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Marije_Brummel

How do you open the database?

Last time I opened a split database from a client you had to put all filenames in the open database window separated by a '+'

Like

database1.fdb+database2.fbd

Have you done this?

girish.joshi

No, I didn't, but I just did and it worked. Thank you.