Creation Password (GRX)

[Jeff Harrison]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Brian K. White <brian at aljex.com>
> To: "filepro-list at lists.celestial.com" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 4:39:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Creation Password (GRX)
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 

Yes, however, if you copy/rename a filepro file - without fpcopy, there is a way 
to recover and remove the creation password from the map - after the fact.  Many 
moons ago I had documented a way to do this and I believe it appeared in a news 
letter somewhere... 


Basically, it goes like this.  
* backup your file
* rename the directory of your file to a temporary name
* create a new (empty) file with the original name using filepro - just don't 
key in any fields.
* retain the header on this new map file - this is what should be the first line 
in your original map - except you need to edit the numbers that correspond to 
the number of characters in the key segment, number of characters in the data 
segment, and the number of fields in the key.
* edit your original map and make the proper replacements.
* delete the "empty" directory you just created.
* rename your file back to the original name you started with.

This should not be done of course unless you really know what you are doing.

I don't think you will need to go into each output format and screen, and update 
them to remove the checksum/password issues as I recall - I believe this is only 
an issue if you rename the formats individually.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
Author of JHExport and JHImport