Dear Rodney,

There have been reports of the Address.In file increasing to very large
size (many MB). Inspection of the address file reveals many duplicates
of the address data.

The root of the problem appears to be stray the temporary
Address.in.tmp file not being deleted each refresh cycle. This issue
will be resolved in the next version of the AllTalk server.

For the present we suggest scheduling a batch file to delete daily the
Address.in file and ESPECIALLY any address.in.tmp files that may be
present. Schedule this before the standard first schedule login time
when most AllTalk clients will request the address data. This should
keep the address file down to a sensible size. Note though that the
only reasonable explanation for the temporary address file not being
delete is that there is a file lock issue. Ie it might be that a batch
file will not be able to successful deleting the temporary file when it
gets into the faulty state.

The temporary address file should only exist for a minute or two in any
case, so if it is older than 3 minutes - it is faulty.






--- In alltalk-avp@..., rodneyebird <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Glen,
>
> We have had three users, over the last day, reporting Alltalk
downloads
> freezing at the 'Address file download' entry. They have all now
> resolved, although one took 48 hours. All three were using version
> 1.1.92 of the client.
>
> Rodney
>