[Babase] upcen and logins and such
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Tue Feb 5 09:59:29 EST 2008
On 02/05/2008 08:19:37 AM, kfenn wrote:
> There is something screwy still happening with UPLOAD. (UPCEN seems
> to be OK. I logged in at 8:05 and tried it again at 8:43 but didn't
> get any login error messges.)
>
> UPLOAD is the one that is giving me problems. I was using it just
> before I tried the UPCEN upload at 8:43 (so let's say 8:40 for the
> sake of argument). I fiddled with some updates and then went back to
> UPLOAD at 8:56 (after about 16 minutes).
>
> I browsed, selected a file, and tried to upload but got:
> /Login failed./ Is the database, user, and password correct?
>
> I don't think I got bumped all the way back to the login window, but
> the interface windows in both are so similar, its hard to tell.
>
> I browsed again from the same window, got the same file, and hit the
> upload button. The login failure had reset the database to
> babase_test so my file generated an error message about a duplicate
> date (absolutely true because I had already uploaded this file to
> babase_test). However, it took the file the second time without
> generating a login error message and without me changing anything
> about the database, user, or password info. I only browsed and
> reloaded the file.
>
> Hope that helps. I can work around this, knowing its a pitfall, so
> don't spend too much time on it. However, if it is a relatively easy
> fix, it would be good to remove this obstacle. There are enough
> things that have to function in a quirky fashion, which we have no
> choice about changing.
It should be some small change. I'll look for the problem later
today.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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