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Association died in offseason...unattended mode - 5/27/2006 8:14:17 AM

smc415

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I started a 12 team association in 1900, and ran it through the 1914 season. I reviewed stats(everything looked good btw-- well tripples were a bit high, but I'm using a lot of HUGE parks), and then started it running again in unattended mode. When I returned the game had crashed. When I started it up, the game said there was no quick load association. I manually loaded the association and the associaiton came up claiming a date of 4 1 1917, and displayed historical stats through 1916. The odd thing... I cannot play a game nor even find the option to start an unattended session. I attempted to compact the association and got the error message

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Puresim Baseball 2007 was unable to upgrade the association from version 0 to version 366 Detailed Error Desc: The Micorsolft Jet database engine cannot find the input table or query 'Version'. Make sure it exists and that its name is spelled correctly.

when loading the association now I see that it defaults to a psa_compact file rather than a psa file. When I manually select the .psa file I get the quoted error directly.

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RE: Association died in offseason...unattended mode - 5/27/2006 2:17:23 PM

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Sounds like it is corrupt. What I'd really like to know is what caused it to crash in the first place. This actually sounds like it crashed during the "compact data" phase during the off season. Make sure 1) You have plenty of disk space 2) Defragment your hard disk. Also, if you are using a virus scanner, you may want to see if it supports being configured to NOT scan files in the "PureSim 2007" folder. I've seen virus scanners and PureSim conflict given how disk intensive the game is. Typically this is not an issue with commonly used virus scanners, but I have seen it.

The good news is you should not be dead in the water as the game automatically creates backups each season. To revert to your latest back up:

1. From windows explorer browse to the "c:\Matrix Games\PureSim Baseball 2007\psa" folder.

2. Find the files that start with [your assn name].PSA and [your assn name].PSX

3. Delete those 2 files

4. Find the file with the newest date named [your assn name].PSA.Backup_*

5. Rename that file to be [your assn name].PSA

6. Find the file with the newest date named [your assn name].PSX.Backup_*

7. Rename that file to be [your assn name].PSX

At that point to can re-load the game and load your association. It will be at the most recent backup, which was hopefully not too long ago.

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RE: Association died in offseason...unattended mode - 5/27/2006 7:22:57 PM

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Thank You Shaun.

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RE: Association died in offseason...unattended mode - 5/29/2006 7:08:53 PM

smc415

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Oh and for what it's worth. a Badly fragmented disk seems to have been the issue.

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RE: Association died in offseason...unattended mode - 5/29/2006 7:21:12 PM

smc415

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Ooops well that didn't turn out to be the case. I just thought I had gotten further than previous attempts. Still the same problem, after the defrag. Got 7GB available as well.

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RE: Association died in offseason...unattended mode - 5/31/2006 2:36:35 AM

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Any idea when it's locking up? It sounds environmental, but I don't want to rule out a bug in PureSim. Can you zip up and send me a pristine copy of the association via www.sendthisfile.com? I'll run it for a night and see if I encounter anything strange.

Send it to shaun@puresim.com

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