[Papyrus-L] Papyrus 7.0.17 - problem inputting new references

[Andrew Wilson]

Dear all

thanks again for all your suggestions - a suggestion off-list from M. W. 
Poirier of Quebec has fixed it - I reinstalled the Papyrus program 
files. Going back through the list archive, I see that this was how Tom 
Gill fixed the same problem when he had it - reinstallation of the 
program files, rather than reindexing the database.

Apologies for troubling you with a problem that has been fixed once 
before on this list - but at least it was good to see that there is 
still a community of diehards out there, ready to pitch in with advice,

Many thanks
best wishes
Andrew

On 18/05/2012 17:06, Raisa Deber wrote:

> I don't think it is a Papyrus limit, since the manual says "Program 

> Limits

> The total number of references, abstracts, comments and notecards in 

> your database cannot

> exceed 2 million (approximately- the exact number depends on the 

> actual length of your

> comments and abstracts).

> No individual field within a reference or notecard can exceed 8,000 

> characters. However, you

> may attach an unlimited number of notecards to each reference."

>

> So it does look like a systems issue rather than a DOS issue per se, 

> since 100,000 is still considerably less than 2 million, even if each 

> does have abstracts and comments and notecards.

> Sorry can't help more, since I don't use Windows and don't know if 

> there are some settings that can be tweaked to give you more disk 

> space.  I'm a worse die-hard than you - I'm clinging to my PowerPc Mac 

> so I can keep using Papyrus (right now, trying to get my case studies 

> book off to the publisher).  My current annoyance is the refusal to 

> allow commas in corporate authors :)

> Raisa Deber

>

> On May 18, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Michael Logies wrote:

>

>> At 18.05.2012 16:11 Andrew Wilson wrote:

>>

>>> John Fennick's suggestion is interesting, if dispiriting. I hope I don't

>>> have to move to Windows 7,

>>

>> If it is a limitation of Papyrus (DOS, 16 bit-software), how a newer 

>> Windows should help? Delete some references (after a backup) and try 

>> whether adding some will work again. Perhaps you are really hitting a 

>> wall here and have to split your database.

>>

>> Regards

>>

>> M.

>>

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