Disk Space Complaint by Old App

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Doug Kanter

I'm running ACT for Windows, an app that was last updated in the days of
WIN98. Runs fine, except that when I want to reindex the database, it
complains about insufficient disk space. The database files total about 5
mb, and I have 11 gb free on my hard disk. Are there issues with old apps,
and ways to fool them?
 
Doug said:
I'm running ACT for Windows, an app that was last updated in the days of
WIN98. Runs fine, except that when I want to reindex the database, it
complains about insufficient disk space. The database files total about 5
mb, and I have 11 gb free on my hard disk. Are there issues with old apps,
and ways to fool them?
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Old apps make assumptions about maximum possible sizes of disk-space,
RAM etc and use data-types which are too small to hold the actual sizes.
So any calculations they make end up being wrong by orders of magnitude
due to severe rounding errors.

Tried running it in Compatibility Mode?
 
Mike Williams said:
Old apps make assumptions about maximum possible sizes of disk-space, RAM
etc and use data-types which are too small to hold the actual sizes. So
any calculations they make end up being wrong by orders of magnitude due
to severe rounding errors.

Tried running it in Compatibility Mode?
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Tried it just now, but can't test the reindexing feature (or any others)
because the menus vanish completely! I can see this is going to be
interesting.
 
Doug Kanter said:
Tried it just now, but can't test the reindexing feature (or any others)
because the menus vanish completely! I can see this is going to be
interesting.
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hmmm something twigged there(or maybe just a stroke :> ) ...try adding
files=99 to your config.sys
 
Haggis said:
hmmm something twigged there(or maybe just a stroke :> ) ...try adding
files=99 to your config.sys
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Hey! I remember that! You must be as ancient as I am! :-) I'll let you know
if it works, later today.
 
Doug said:
Hey! I remember that! You must be as ancient as I am! :-) I'll let you know
if it works, later today.
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Bugger. I've been trying to FORGET all that stuff. Next you'll be going
on about the best place to put your HIMEM.SYS parameters.
 
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