Xi31 Excel key of the Engines section of Windows Registry

Hi all
anyone seen this error before?

Invalid setting in Excel key of the Engines section of the Windows Registry. (3433): [] The following data providers have not been successfully refreshed: PD 2 in xxx.txt. (DMA0007): [] Invalid setting in Excel key of the Engines section of the Windows Registry. (3433): [] The following data providers have not been successfully refreshed: PD 2 in xxx.txt. (DMA0007): []

This error is being produced in a win2003 server, running BOXi 3.1 with fp1.5. The error is seen on any report that uses a txt file as a data supplier. These reportswere previously running fine, and stranger still it works fine with xls files ?
Thanks Chaps


Xavier :ireland: (BOB member since 2006-12-18)

The ‘fix’ on the MS site reads;
[i]This problem occurs if both of the following conditions are true:
The DisabledExtensions value in the following registry subkey
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Text
contains an extension that is five or more characters long.

For example, abcde causes the problem if the registry value is the following:
!txt,csv,tab,asc,htm,html,abcde
Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Service Pack 4 (SP4) is installed, or you are running Microsoft Windows 2000.[/i]But this doesn’t help


Xavier :ireland: (BOB member since 2006-12-18)

We installed MS access on the server :yesnod: and that seemed to work


phippst (BOB member since 2007-08-07)

Also check the Extentions entry within the “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engines\Text” subkey.

I had a similar problem with Deski Client (XI 3.1) and found some weird entry in the Extentions key: “txt,csv,tab,asc,10.txt,08.11.txt”. I had removed “strange” extensions from that list: “txt,csv,tab,asc” and Deski works fine again.


kflorek :poland: (BOB member since 2007-02-10)