Question Re: Crystal Reports in Technology Q&A

Crystal Reports

Jherron316 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:53:43 GMT

When I open up my report I get an "error" stating "The database file "emmain" has changed. Proceeding to fix up the report. I click ok and then get a popup "The database is now up to date." Click OK again. The 2 popups keep repeating over and over again the report never opens. I have to close program using task manger to get out of it.

SAP Crystal Reports

2016 Support Pack 4

Re: Crystal Reports

vitaly_izmaylov — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:25:58 GMT

Does report have subreport? What is "emmain" ? Is it Excel file?

Re: Crystal Reports

Jherron316 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:41:08 GMT

I believe it has sub reports. "Emmain" I have no idea what the error is. Our team uses the Crystal reports to run stats. SO this kind of just got dumped on me with little knowledge of their reports.

Re: Crystal Reports

DonWilliams — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:45:35 GMT

That will happen for every value in the reports data, you may have to keep clicking on it until it does return data.

Open the report without refreshing the data, check the data source by clicking Database menu, set data source and check the connections. The close the report and log into the data source first and then open the report.

Also, SP 4 is quite old, the last patch is SP 9, try updating CR Designer from here:

https://origin.softwaredownloads.sap.com/public/site/index.html