On Friday, January 13, 2012 09:31:24 AM yann jautard did opine: > Le 12/01/2012 23:34, gene heskett a écrit : > > On Thursday, January 12, 2012 05:29:04 PM robert did opine: > >> i have seen my work offset disapear also and its more todo with > >> machine being shutdown/turned off with out it doing a full shutdown, > >> iv not dug deep into it but it seems EMC does not close the file or > >> something if you dont allow a shutdown it gets reset in some way. > >> > >> rob > > > > I haven't experienced that that I know of, but I am wondering if you > > allow emc to do a clean shutdown before you do a graceful on the > > computer. I have no clue what emc might do if the shutdown was a 5 > > second hold on the power switch while it was running. Or, heaven > > forbid, the power strip switch was used as an end of day shutdown. > > Perhaps a Q&A and refresher tutorial with the employee might be > > "illuminating"? > > May be, but I'm pretty sure shutdown was done in the regular way, > exiting emc, then gnome, then power off the machine switch. > > We experienced problems with our electricity provider last month and had > several cutoffs while machine was running. No problems with emc.var > file. Some problems to restart properly in the middle of the work, of > course, but no problems with EMC2. > Good to hear. Actually, this is the sort of thing I've had happen 2 or 3 times in old winderz NT-3.51 and 4.0 systems. Suddenly a very important DLL with either be zero'ed out, or just plain nuked. Makes it very difficult to trouble shoot, a dos boot from floppies doesn't know about NTFS of course, and the missing file can only be obtained from M$ by buying another copy (their attitude is that if _that_ file is missing, you have an illegal copy of NT, even after I gave them the number from the license papers that came with the machine) of the OS & doing a fresh install.
The fact that there was 2 or 3 million in billing data, the whole Accounts Receivables database, on that drive doesn't mean squat to them. Perhaps I wasn't supposed to, but when we had bought a new copy, I was able to find the file I needed and copy it in. System restored. Just one of the many reasons there will never be an M$ OS on any machine of mine for much longer than it takes to burn a dvd of whatever linux I'm fond of today & install it. And it pi$$e$ me off when they accuse me of being a pirate. I've never pirated anything of microshafts, never thought it was worth pirating, let alone buying. My dislike for M$ goes clear back to dos-3.1 days when because I needed a terminal program that supported ftp in order to download and install another vendors update kit, I called them for ideas & the bastards accused me of only wanting it for illegal purposes, "there is no legal use for ftp". At that point I was so frustrated I gave them about 50 cents worth of my opinion on their business model. They haven't done anything in the past 20 years that has changed my mind a bit. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> I knew I'd hate COBOL the moment I saw they'd used "perform" instead of "do". -- Larry Wall on a not-so-popular programming language ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
