Locate Similar Record - empty list of databases

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Description:
We connect to our BIB ABC01 library in GUI Cataloging, open a record and select the "Locate Similar Record" function. However, there are no databases to select. The window is empty. Strangely, when we connect to any other library, like ABC10 or even EXT01, the Locate Similar Record window opens correctly, with all the databases set in our GUI .\Alephcom\tab\locate.dat. Why the databases are not displayed for ABC01?

Resolution:
This is rare problem, and we found it in another site few years ago. The problem was that in ./abc01/pc_tab/catalog/ there was a file called "locate.dat". This file was empty, and normally should not have been there (it might be a result of an upgrade error). The locate.dat file was loaded to the GUI .\Catalog\libs\abc01\tab during util/m/7. As a result, an empty list was open for ABC01.

Please delete this file from ./abc01/pc_tab/catalog, run UTIL/M/7, and re-connect to GUI Cataloging.
After that the list of databases should be displayed correctly, taken from .\Alephcom\tab\locate.dat.