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Problems with baclup

JohnManardPosted on 02/26/03 at 18:58:04

Ive had TNM for years and never run into this problem. I go to back up my program and it says EMERGENCY! bACKUP NOT FOUND.

Anyone have a clue what that means?
IBProfanePosted on 02/28/03 at 00:31:35

How bizarre...I had the exact same problem today after years of near flawless TNM runs. I couldn't catch the error # but It said Emergency, Backup Not Found. Strange...my TNM menu was also blinking like crazy when I opened it. I had to close it and re-open it for that to stop. Then I went in to backup my database and that error occured...
Oliver CoppPosted on 03/01/03 at 09:26:08

Could it be that you moved PKZIP.EXE somewhere else ? That's pretty much the only thing I can think of right now...
IBProfanePosted on 03/01/03 at 21:47:09

Oliver, where is the PKZIP file supposed to be? I installed a clean version of TNM 7 to see if that would fix it but I have the same problems. Thanks for the help...
Oliver CoppPosted on 03/01/03 at 21:59:45

I'd need the error number and location, as impossible as that sounds...
IBProfanePosted on 03/03/03 at 00:18:28

Hmm...not impossible but the error # appears and then the program closes within less than a second. I will try and see what I can come up with though...
LillaThrillaPosted on 03/03/03 at 05:27:54

Try running it via DOS mode (instead of a DOS window within Windows) to see the error.  That usually works - in Windows, a TNM error sometimes immediately closes the DOS window TNM is running in :(

BTW, Oliver, is it possible to have TNM7 be able to use WinZip instead of PKzip?  Since I think thats alot more popular these days.
pszPosted on 03/03/03 at 13:44:59

If you are in Windows 2k/xp and need to see the error message, run TNM with the free VDMSound program (vdmsound.sf.net). It makes you "Press Any Key." to exit the DOS Box. This way you can see the error before the window closes.

Another way is to run the Command Prompt and then run TNM from there. It'll exit TNM, but not the Command Prompt, thus allowing you to, again, see the error message.