Symptom: Error: "An updating lock has been placed on this database" appears when opening the database
Product Details:
Product Family: Act!
Product: Act! Pro, Act! Premium
Version: v18
Cause: This may be caused by someone editing fields/the layout in your Act! database, or if the database was previously locked without being unlocked
Solution:
Users modifying fields
Database is locked
If nobody is currently editing the database fields\layout:
Product Details:
Product Family: Act!
Product: Act! Pro, Act! Premium
Version: v18
Cause: This may be caused by someone editing fields/the layout in your Act! database, or if the database was previously locked without being unlocked
Solution:
Users modifying fields
- Check with other users to see if they are modifying the fields
- When they are done, attempt to log in to test
Database is locked
If nobody is currently editing the database fields\layout:
- From the server computer, unlock the database by following the steps in the following knowledgebase aritcle:
How do I lock or unlock an Act! database?
Answer ID How do I lock or unlock an Act! database?
- Attempt to open the database again to test