Making Room to Teach the IA

    The error message you received indicates that Q&A has estimated 
that it will not have enough space to teach the Intelligent Assistant.  
Q&A tends to be a bit conservative in estimating its needs, as a part 
of its efforts to safeguard your data, so it may be that you have 
plenty of room for a taught database.  To override Q&A's estimate do 
the following.

    From Main Menu, choose File, then Copy and enter the name of your 
database.  This will bring you to the Copy Menu.  Choose D to Copy 
Design Only and enter a new temporary name for the database.

    When Q&A finishes making the copy, go back to the Intelligent 
Assistant and teach it about the new design you just created.  After 
you have finished, return to File, choose Copy and enter the old name 
for the database.  From the Copy Menu, this time choose S to Copy 
Selected Forms, enter the temporary name and press F10 on the Retrieve
Spec and Merge Spec.

    When Q&A finishes copying the forms into your new design, you will 
have successfully taught the Intelligent Assistant about your 
database.  You can now return to Main Menu, choose Utilities, and then 
DOS file facilities to delete the old copy of the database and then 
rename the new one.  We also suggest making a backup of your new 
database at this point.































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