Creation Password (GRX)

[Brian K. White]

On 2/24/2011 4:04 PM, Chris Sellitto wrote:
> FilePro(r) 5.0.14D9
> Windows Server 2008 R2
> Windows XP workstation/laptop
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> Sometimes what we do here is we will take an existing file (ie. Gr_REDBK), and copy the key, map, and indexes into another folder, for example called REPREDBK.  What we see happen when we do this is when we access the file REPREDBK we get a "ENTER CREATION PASSWORD FOR 'REPREDBK'" message box.  There was no password on the original GR_REDBK file to begin with.  Does anyone know why this happens, and how we can resolve it?  I know there will be some of you that say not to do this.  I would agree.  Fact is, we did it.  Any help is greatly appreciated.  I hope I made some kind of sense.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Christopher Sellitto

Yes. You can't do that.
If you want to copy or rename a filepro file, you have to use fpcopy (in 
the fp utilities menu)

You CAN copy filepro files to other locations without otherwise renaming 
them and they work fine. IE, you can have /u/appl/filepro/foo and copy 
it to /u/appl2/filepro/foo and it'll work fine in the new filepro tree, 
because it's named "foo" in both locations, but you can't rename foo to 
foo2 within the same filepro directory except by using fpcopy to do it.

The name of the file is embedded in certain file types like screens and 
if the name of the file at run-time doesn't match what was encoded into 
the file parts at creation time, you get that message.

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bkw