Thanks a bunch Ray! Always a treat when you or one of the other super-guru's respond to my questions. The naming conventions for our dictionary items have caused me grief in the past. It just goes to figure that they would bite me again. I have slowly been changing these over the past few years.
Scott > The syntax for CREATE.INDEX is CREATE.INDEX filename fieldname. Your field name > is "1". What will happen is that a directory called I_filename will be created, > the actual index will be a file called INDEX.nnn in that directory, and the > mapping from your field name is recorded in a (binary) file called INDEX.MAP. > > Possibilities for this error are that you don't have permission to create > I_filename directory, you don't have permission to create the INDEX.nnn file > within that directory, or it's objecting (on priciple) to a name that doesn't > begin with an alphabetic character (perhaps because such an index would not be > accessible via ODBC because of ODBC naming rules). > > If permissions aren't the issue, try creating a synonym (or use an existing > synonym) for field number 1, one whose name begins with an alphabetic character, > such as "A1", then try indexing on that. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 08:02:27 +0000 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (u2-Users) > Subject: [UV] Unable to create index > > Hi all, > > Can someone tell me what this message means to life when I try to create an > index? > > >CREATE.INDEX NEW_INVC 1 > > Unable to generate unique index file name! > > Thanks, > > Scott > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users