Comments on: Tips: Watch the DFC Registry Mode http://wordofpie.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/ Ponderings on Life, the Universe, and Information Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:28:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pie http://wordofpie.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3594 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:59:08 +0000 http://wordofpie.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3594 Glad to help.

-Pie

]]> By: Ram http://wordofpie.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3593 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:11:20 +0000 http://wordofpie.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3593 Laurence, Thanks for sharing this tip on your blog. You literally saved me from a really stressed out weekend.

We are preparing to migrate some 70,000 documents from one Lotus Domino to Documentum using a custom DFC application. We were in the process of setting up around 20 laptops with this custom application. The application kept crashing without any error on some of the laptops while it ran perfectly on others. It was really puzzling. After reinstalling DFC and JDK several times, I enabled the tracing in DFC, ran the application and then I saw the DfRegistryWin32 related error in the logs. I Googled for it and landed straight at this post. Thanks to Google and to you for sharing this info :-)
- cheers
Ram

]]> By: Pie http://wordofpie.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3244 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:40:39 +0000 http://wordofpie.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3244 All true Rajendra. I wouldn’t recommend switching in mid-stream.

The situation above was purely rolling a mid-tier application to a new server, and the complaints that followed.

]]> By: Rajendra http://wordofpie.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3243 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:25:41 +0000 http://wordofpie.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3243 Pie,
Good explanation.
I have a point to add, if we still want to use Windows Registry (on Windows client) we need to add DfRegistryWin32.dll to java.library.path. The reason being the Windows registry was already holding the information about the previously checked out, Viewed documents entries.
If all of a sudden we change the registry mode of DFC consider the a case of a previously checked out document. When I try to checkin, DFC will not be unable to find the checkout related information (as new registry has no information of the location of the checked out file).
This may fail the checkin operation.
In a WDK(UCF based) scenario changing the registry.mode from windows to file will prompt for the checked out files location, if it doesn’t find in the registry.

]]> By: Pie http://wordofpie.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3239 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:46:52 +0000 http://wordofpie.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3239 Victor, thank you for chiming it. It is good to know that the team back in Pleasanton occasionally reads the stuff out here in the blogsphere and that it can positively impact things at EMC.

]]> By: Victor Spivak http://wordofpie.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3236 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:14:15 +0000 http://wordofpie.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3236 Pie,

Good job. We should add this information to our documentation. I will forward your post to our tech pubs.

]]> By: Pie http://wordofpie.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3233 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:45:45 +0000 http://wordofpie.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3233 Bindu, great to see you in the blogsphere. It has been some time. It is a great post and I encourage people to go and read it. Bindu’s post explains how the registry works in more detail.

If you want to understand the DFC registry, as opposed to just keeping it out of your way, read it.

]]> By: binduwavell http://wordofpie.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3232 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:43:46 +0000 http://wordofpie.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/tips-watch-the-dfc-registry-mode/#comment-3232 Laurence, I’ve been meaning to write up some info about the DFC Client Registry too, you inspired me.

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