Memory Full error

**Aland2929** · 07-02-2020, 06:33 AM

A friend is using a Lotus 123 macro-driven file (for the past 30 years) & gets a "memory full" error when using File Open Combine with a .DBF file. It has always worked OK previously & the .DBF file can be opened in Excel without any problem. There is obviously no support for Lotus today & I'm hoping someone might be able to suggest a possible solution. He has uninstalled Lotus & re-installed the program & no memory size problem with the .DBF file as it opens perfectly in Excel.
Thanks in advance

**MarvinP** · 07-02-2020, 08:34 AM

Hi Aland,

I'd be looking for what he has done since the last time it did work. Has he updated his OS to a newer version. Is he now running other programs that are using memory? I'd run the task manager to see what else is running in memory and trim that back to a minimum and try again.

When you say "Combine", is that within Lotus only or is he combining it in Excel? What happens if he uses Access to combine?

**Aland2929** · 07-02-2020, 08:43 AM

Thanks for your reply - he uses the Lotus command "File Open Combine" to combine a .DBF file into Lotus. I used Excel to open the DBF file only to confirm there was no problem with the DBF file. So, no problem opening the DBF file in Excel but a problem in Lotus. The file runs perfectly at his other branches so the problem is limited to 1 branch only?

**menem** · 07-03-2020, 02:17 AM

I guess that lower memory was not enough to use ( this may occure from many reason : bigger of .DBF file, resize of smartdrive cache,
A80 or Himem.sys memory driver error - so the machine cannot use expanded memory ). Did your friend use DOS ?

Please show your friend config.sys if possible.

Note : if memory low is come from bigger of .DBF this might not help.

Regards.

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