[NTLK] NCU: ...an error has occurred (-1)

From: Rodney Rothstein (rothstein_at_cancercenter.columbia.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2001 - 07:28:39 PDT

Thanks for the suggestions and for those of you following this
thread, I have succeeded in getting Names out of my uMP2000 with NCU.
Here's how I did it and I have no technical explanation but a few
guesses. I have 1840 names (1806), owner info (2) and worksites
(34). First, every time I tried exporting them with NCU either to a
tab file, Claris Organizer (CO) or Now, I got a message on my Mac
"Could not complete the Export command because an error has occurred
(-1)." I then tried to export Names using Revelar Connection Utility
2.3 and it worked fine. This suggested that it was not a fatal error
in Names. So for my next step I transferred 200 names to the
internal store from my 16Mb Simple Technologies flash card and
removed the flash card. This time, using NCU, I did not get an error
message and all 200 names transferred just fine to a CO file.
Encouraged by this result, I transferred all of my names to the
internal store, removed the flash card and after attepting to
transfer, I got the same (-1) error message as before. Undaunted, I
transferred about 150 names back onto the card, removed the card and
had no trouble writing the remaining 1650 names to a CO file.
Exploring this further, I found that if I left out 4 names (the
"X's"), 1802 transferred perfectly. Those four "X" names were not
the culprits as they themselves, when transferred as a group of four
are fine. My best guess is that there is a "wall" that I hit near
1800 names (607K in the Newton) that was solved by splitting up the
amount of data. Just for the sake of completeness, I don't think
that the limitation was on space allocation on my Mac to the two
programs that get used: NCU is set for 6255K minimum and 25000K
preferred and COrgAE2 is set for 768K minimum and 10000K preferred.
Both preferred sizes were increased 25% from the previous settings
that worked two weeks ago.

Sorry for this longwinded exposition, but I thought that maybe
someone out there will be helped by this info.

>
>Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:47:10 -0500
>Subject: Re: [NTLK] NCU: ...an error has occurred (-1)
>From: Paul Nuernberger <>
>
>You will probably have to go through your names one by one to find the one
>(or more) that are corrupted. You may see the coruption in the Names App,
>or you may need to dig into it with something like SBM Utilities.
>
>Alternatively, you could try using XPort and send say 10-20 names at a time
>until you get an error, track the error, and continue until you have cleared
>the entire list.
>
>A bloody pain in the rump, but unless you have a recent backup ...
>
>Wishing to not be the bearer of bad tidings,
>
>Paul Nuernberger
>
>
>
>> From: Rodney Rothstein <rothstein_at_cuccfa.ccc.columbia.edu>
>> Reply-To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 01:22:26 -0400
>> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>> Subject: [NTLK] NCU: ...an error has occurred (-1)
>>
>> Jim J. and Paul N.,
>>
>> I tried increasing memory for all NCU associated programs to over
>> 16Mb and I deleted all of the old preferences. All to no avail. NCU
> > won't send out any Names info to Claris, tab delimited or Now. The
>> same is true if try to backup. It goes nowhere so I can't see where
>> it is hung up. I was hoping that there is an easier way than relying
>> on back export because I have found that some of the info on the
>> cards gets scrambled. For example, all cards become "persons",
>> "company" is just obliterated. That is not a big price to pay for
>> desktop/PDA connection but there are other bits lost as well.
>> Anyway, here's a bit more strange happenings. Using an IR
>> connection, I started to transfer my 1600 names into my wife's MP2000
>> and approximately 75% of the people that get transferred become
>> companies. The person just becomes secondary to the company name.
>> Has anyone heard of this before? Is there an easy way to revert the
>> card back to its original state with the person primary and the
> > company secondary?
>>
>> Thanks for all of the help and kudos to all involved for making
> > newtontalk a success!
>> 

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