Try disabling UAC---ITSup

We have started to have a very strange problem. We have a multi user application and randomly, everything locks ups. The problem is isolated to one user (random, not always the same), having a write lock on pdoxusrs.lck file. If I go to the file serv...

Posted to MB Topic: Paradox Setup, Vista, etc. « Paradox Board

I hope this is not the wrong group. Our problem is compatibilty with Paradox application and a delphi app using BDE. Each have their own private directory and more often than not, the delphi app crashes when trying to set the session private directory. Why would this be? The directory is empty and not used by any other application? A reboot of the computer typically solves the problem but I'd really like some further understanding...exception number  : 1, exception class   : EDBEngineError, exception message : Directory is busy., , main thread ($b9c):, 005eb8b1 +011 rcurt.exe Bde.DBTables           DbiError, 005eb8bd +005 rcurt.exe Bde.DBTables           Check, 005ef5e0 +04c rcurt.exe Bde.DBTables           TSession.SetPrivateDir, 0065b89b +8b7 rcurt.exe f_main       1286 +138 TMain.FormCreate,...

Posted to MB Topic: Delphi Distributed Apps « Delphi Board

This is killing us! Still no solutions, not a back up problem (using veritas), not AV, the LCK file gets a write lock and then other users cannot access it until I go into computer management on the server, shared folders, open files and then manually close the file. this allows other users to proceed... this never happened before. maybe it's windows that is causing the problem? anybody? any ideas?

Posted to MB Topic: Paradox Setup, Vista, etc. « Paradox Board