Thanks Mary
As far as I can tel, the last upgrade we ran was the one called Upgrade Kit for v6.14.4, which I see included the 7M script, but as with Matt, after this most recent failed update, the Setting table was left with DbSeq set at 0000007L. I presume that this was how it was left after the previous update, which might explain why the updater tried to run 7M again.
After running all the scripts manually I have amended the setting table to Dbseq = 0000007X.
Everything seems to be running normally now and what I have seen of the changes so far look great.
There was one other thing. Currently I seem to be the only person here with the necessary priviledges to be able to run updates, although we have so far been unable to identify the difference between my login and my colleague's (who should also be able to do it). It appears that the difference is to do with machine permissions. When she ran the update on her workstation she was told she did not have sufficient access to perform the update and the process stopped. Later she ran it again, on her login, but my machine and this was the update which successfully did the UI upgrade but fell over on the 7M script. Just before it failed she had a dialog informing her that the Access database had not been updated.
This message isn't very informative, so we don't know if we were told this beciase the Access Db should have been updated but wasn.t, or if it was never intended that this update would affect the Access Db and we were just being warned that there would be a discrepancy betwen the SQL & Access versions of the Db.
Could you please clarify this and let me know if there is a way of performing the Access Db update manually as we use it quite a lot and would like to be sure it is reliable.
Rob Large
Wildlife Sites Officer
Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre