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Hey, I wonder what "Internal Error 512" menas. Thanks, Fabio

It means something happened that shouldn't have. Could you provide details as to what you were doing when it occurred. It probably means you've found a bug.

Well, I was running some thousands OLS and storing their @r2, etc. in a table. Sometimes I store just those with a R2 >= k (e.g., k = 0.80). I get this quite often.

I thought that might have happened because I defined a table with more than one million rows. Or perhaps because I have erased a hidden file.

Thank You, Fabio

Are you getting this error on a save or an open?

Mostly when I open a workfile, specially those that are large (couple hundreds of Mb).

Sometimes I leave the code running about, say, some thousands OLS or VAR and keep saving every couple of hundred iterations (both the workfile and a table with output - with wfsave and table.save).

When I am back to work in the next morning, I get this error. Today, I just got "Internal Error 520".

I dont know if this is related, but what is this "~f1" file? It is just as large as teh original ".wf1" file!

It's just the backup of the previous version of the workfile from the last time you saved.

Then, if I am running Eviews 6, I can delete the file, right? How about the 512/520 error?

It is quite annoying, for I have to leave the program running for hours and I might end up with an unreadable 500Mb workfile!

Thank You, Fabio

Yes, you can delete the .~f1 file. Mind you, if EViews is misbehaving having an extra backup around might be a good idea. :)

I think we'd have to see it in order to work out what is going wrong.

Could you send us your program and data?

Gareth, sorry, but I can't post neither code, workfile or data.

But the code runs about one milliion VARs changing series (log, dlog, @pcy, etc.), lags, etc. and retrieving in a table object some key statistics (like @rbar, @dw and var01.c(i,j)).

Thanks, Fabio

Without the program/data it will be hard for us to diagnose precisely. At a guess, you're simply pushing the limits of what can be held in a table. You might contemplate putting information into multiple tables rather than one big one.

What is the limit of a table? One million rows?

Complicated question with no real answer, as it depends on too many different factors.