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Resolved PowerBuilder deployment to PBDs not being written

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  1. John Poitras
    John Poitras
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  3. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:13 PM UTC

I'm having a problem when trying to deploy our application. For some reason it is not writing the PBD files. I am currently using Appeon PowerBuilder 2019 R2 Build 2353 on Windows 10 Enterprise Version 10 Build 18363. I last deployed the application on September 30th. I have rebooted my machine, tried doing a full rebuild and incremental rebuild, and used both 32 and 64 bit platform. I've always used 32 bit. Lastly, I uninstalled and reinstalled PowerBuilder to no avail. I included images of how I have things set up as well as showing that it is writing to the PBLs, but not the PBDs.

Also, Windows Explorer does not show that the PBLs have been modified when I look at the modification date. It shows September 23rd when it should show a December date. The Library Painter in PowerBuilder does show the correct modification date. I'm wondering if a Windows update is what is causing the problem.

For reference, I’ve been using PowerBuilder since 1998. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

John

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Arnd Schmidt
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  1. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:33 PM UTC
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Check your Windows Explorer settings and add the column wth date modified to your view.

I feel that you look at the creation date of the file and not the modified date.

Arnd

 

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:49 PM UTC
Good catch!
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John Poitras
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  2. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:50 PM UTC
Hahahahaha!!!!! I feel so stupid! I ONLY sort by date modified in Windows Explorer, not by name and definitely not by creation date. I have no idea how my folder lost that field, but it did. That was definitely the problem.



Thank you very much Arnd!

John
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
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  2. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:42 PM UTC
Glad to hear it. So the PBDs are now generated?
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John Poitras
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  1. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:52 PM UTC
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Problem solved! Thanks for all your ideas Armeen! And thank you to Arnd Schmidt for the solution!

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
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  2. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:13 PM UTC
What was the problem?
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John Poitras
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  2. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:32 PM UTC
I was sorting by Date, not Date Modified. To be fair, all my folders were defaulted to sort by Date Modified, and the other date fields are removed. I'm assuming that our last Windows/Work update reset our Windows Explorer to the original default, which removes Date Modified and replaced it back to Date. So it looked like my PBDs weren't getting updated when actually they were.

However, it still doesn't explain why it doesn't show PowerBuilder writing the PBDs in the Output window for the Project. I double checked this after modifying Windows Explorer. It only shows it writing the PBLs.
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John Fauss
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  1. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:37 PM UTC
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Maybe try a Full build instead of an Incremental?

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John Poitras
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  2. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:43 PM UTC
Thanks John, I've tried both Full and Incremental.
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John Poitras
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  1. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:37 PM UTC
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Hi Armeen,

They are definitely in the same folder. I attached images of the library painter and Windows Explorer that shows the modification dates of the library admin_2b.pbl. Also, I did do a fresh install before posting in the forum. I will put in a ticket to put PowerBuilder on another machine, but that will take awhile.

Thanks Armeen,

John

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:54 PM UTC
Let’s see if other people have suggestions, but if nothing else I would suggest completely uninstalling PB and then reinstalling.
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John Poitras
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  2. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:06 PM UTC
Thanks Armeen for trying. I uninstalled and reinstalled it once with the same results earlier today, but I plan on having it installed on a coworkers computer and see if it works on theirs. Probably won't be able to until next week though.
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Arnd Schmidt
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  2. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:47 PM UTC
Explorer shows the "date", not (!) the modified date.

https://superuser.com/questions/147525/what-is-the-date-column-in-windows-7-explorer-it-matches-no-date-column-from
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
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  1. Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:20 PM UTC
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Hi John,

Are you sure that the PBLs in Windows Explorer are the same location as the ones shown in the Library Painter.  I've seen many times customers have duplicate libraries and mix them up.

Also, can you reproduce same problem if you take the same PBLs to a different machine and try to compile?  If no, then there may be problem with your machine config or the PowerBuilder installation got corrupted somehow, which a clean reinstall might resolve.

Best regards,
Armeen

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