[Scidvspc-users] Database compaction failure (MS Windows)

[Steve A <ste...@gm...>]

On windows, sometimes people have complained that they can't compact a
database. I had never seen it until this week, and after a fair bit of
hair pulling, i found the problem. It's due to having a chess engine
open !

Windows has less sophisticated file handling than Unix, and opening a
base, and then an engine, means the engine will prevent removal of the
old si4 file during compaction.

I have written some checks to enforce this (in subversion)
but since 4.15 is not coming out soon - for the moment the work around
is to close all engines first.

Steve