PRB: Error "Not enough Diskspace" When Closing a Table

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Macintosh, version 3.0b

SYMPTOMS

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When you try to close a table (.dbf) file located on a CD-ROM that is not marked as read-only and also contains international characters, you may receive this error:

   Not enough diskspace.

   The application Visual FoxPro for Macintosh has unexpectedly quit,
   because an error of type 3 occurred. You should save your work in
   other open applications and restart the computer.

CAUSE

The table is located on a CD-ROM and the file is not marked as read-only.

RESOLUTION

Add the NOUPDATE clause to the USE command that opens the table.

NOTE: Selecting the "Open As Read-Only" check box adds the NOUPDATE clause to the USE command that is then executed.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Burn a custom CD-ROM to include a table file that meets the following conditions:

   - Table contains either a character field with international extended

        characters (such as an umlaut) or contains a standard memo field with
        international extended characters.
   

   - Table codepage is marked as 0, which means that the table was saved

        without a codepage tag.
   

   NOTE: FoxPro program Cpzero.prg will cause this error to occur.

   - Table is burned onto a CD-ROM without having its file attribute marked

        as read only.
   

   NOTE: Most CD-ROM software sets the read-only attribute by default and there may not be an option to change this behavior.

2. Add the following environment settings in the Config.fpw:

         CODEPAGE = AUTO    && Without this setting problem will not occur.
         EXCLUSIVE = ON
   
   

3. Open the table.

4. An informational dialog is displayed entitled "Code Page" that contains the following message:

         File <filename.dbf> is not marked with a code page. Please select the
         code page it was created in.
   

   By default the Platform option button is set to All and the Code Page list box is set to 1252 - Windows ANSI. Click the Select button.

5. Close the table with the following FoxPro command:

         USE
   

   The error message below is displayed:

         Not enough diskspace.
   

On Windows NT 4.0 the following error messages appear, but on Windows 95 only the second error message appears.

   Vfp.exe -  Write Protect Error
   The disk cannot be written to because it is write protected. Please
   Remove the write protection from the volume in Drive A:

      [Abort]  [Retry]  [Ignore]

   Selection of the [Abort] or [Ignore] button generates the error dialog
   box:

      Microsoft Visual FoxPro
      Error writing to file.

         [OK] [Help]

REFERENCES

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows Online Help; 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a; search on: Code Page Dialog Box

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Macintosh Online Help; version 3.0b; search on: Code Page Dialog Box