[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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