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Bad Paging File

Comment:

our hard drive crashed and now our ODBC connection to our Progress database fails. "mm- bad swap file" appears when trying to verify the connection. any ideas on how to resolve this?

Name: jubalsams
Date: September 24, 2004 at 23:12:03 Pacific

Reply:

Gee, im not sure but if it refers to the WINNT swap file : change swap file size slightly and it will be flushed/recreated upon reboot. Best

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Name: wanderer
Date: September 27, 2004 at 20:10:41 Pacific

Reply:

Windows uses a pagefile not a swapfile. A swapfile is usually specific to a programs internal management. You need to run chkdsk /f from a cmd prompt and if still problems restore from backup.

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