Joan, You should be able to copy an open database. You just can't copy over an open database.
Steve Steve Vellella Office: 520-498-2256 Cell: 520-250-6498 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joan Peterson Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:10 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Not a Developer Question,but need some heavydutyhelp to close Report Designer I don't want to try task manager except as a last resort. Claudine Robbins wrote: > Joan, > > But is Task Manager status "not responding"? > > Claudine > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joan > Peterson > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:34 AM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Not a Developer Question,but need some heavy > dutyhelp to close Report Designer > > Thank you, Claudine. It may well just be one of those "time to shut > down the computer' things. I know I can do the CTRL-ALT-DEL thing, but > I'd rather have R:Base close the module and disconnect, than trust it to > Windows, if I can. > Joan > Claudine Robbins wrote: > >> Try task manager | Applications | End task >> >> CTRL-ALT-DEL or right-click on bottom strip of your desktop to get to task >> manager. >> >> Claudine >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joan >> Peterson >> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:36 AM >> To: RBASE-L Mailing List >> Subject: [RBASE-L] - Not a Developer Question,but need some heavy duty >> > help > >> to close Report Designer >> >> Using latest update of v 7.6 for Windows XP, I was trying to save a >> report to a text file and opted for preview. When I closed the preview, >> I appeared to be out of Report Designer. I ran the report to the screen >> to an .rtf file and discovered that wouldn't work for me, so I went back >> in and chose a regular text file and chose to open it. It opened in >> Notepad. When I closed it, only >R and Database Explorer showed at the >> bottom of the screen. I tried to disconnect but got an error message >> :"close report/designer first". Using the Help pages I couldn't find >> anything that would work. Now I can't close the database, nor could I >> copy it to safeguard it, as it would not copy an open database. How can >> I get the report designer to close so I can disconnect the database? >> Only one cursor show up: SQL_CUR35, which I can not drop or close. >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >> Joan P. >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
