Can't Delete a company

Probably you are using old database on new source tree, where per company subtree is deleted on made unwritable for www server. The subdirectories should have sequential integer numbers beginning from 0 (this has nothing to do with database prefix!). So if you have 5 entries in db_connections (config_db.php) you should have 5 subdirectories from company/0 to company/4. After restoring check if all files have 777 access rights set then delete unneeded company in Create/Update Company page.
Janusz

I'm getting that same error:

This is what my directory tree looks like with 4 companies:

root@hammer:/var/www/htdocs/fa/company# ls
0/  index.php*
root@hammer:/var/www/htdocs/fa/company# ls 0
backup/  images/  index.php*  installed_extensions.php  js_cache/  pdf_files/  reporting/
root@hammer:/var/www/htdocs/fa/company# ls -la  
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Nov 27  2011 ./
drwxrwxrwx 23 root root 4096 Nov 28  2011 ../
drwxrwxrwx  7 root root 4096 Nov 28  2011 0/
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   43 Nov 24  2011 index.php*
root@hammer:/var/www/htdocs/fa/company# ls -la 0
total 36
drwxrwxrwx 7 root   root   4096 Nov 28  2011 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root   4096 Nov 27  2011 ../
drwxrwxrwx 2 root   root   4096 Nov 28  2011 backup/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root   root   4096 Nov 28  2011 images/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root     43 Nov 24  2011 index.php*
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache  147 Nov 28  2011 installed_extensions.php
drwxrwxrwx 2 root   root   4096 Jun 10 00:05 js_cache/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root   root   4096 Nov 28  2011 pdf_files/
drwxrwxrwx 2 root   root   4096 Nov 27  2011 reporting/

I only see one directory there, and I'm running FrontAccounting 2.3.9.

Shouldn't there be a company/1, company/2, and company/3 directory?

What's the next thing to look at for manually removing a company?

Thanks

Okay I saw that there was one file there that wasn't chmod'd 777:

-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache  147 Nov 28  2011 installed_extensions.php

So I set it 777. When that didn't work I:

root@hammer:/var/www/htdocs/fa/company# chmod -Rv 777 .

And I still got the same error when trying to remove a company.

So finally I set everything from the DocumentRoot of the FA installation (/var/www/htdocs/fa) on down as 777 and still I'm receiving the same error.

Everything in the entire FA installation, all directories and files, to 777

What should I look at trying next?

Thanks )

Thanks Janusz!

I did a:

# pwd
/var/www/fa/company
# mkdir -p 1 2 3
# chmod -Rv 777 *

Then logged into FA as admin and deleted company 2 and 3 no problem. Company 4 is now effectively company 2 using the /var/www/htdocs/fa/company/1 directory.

That did the trick. Of interesting note is that what was previously company 4, which had the table prefix 3_, still has the same prefix (Like you said it has nothing to do with the ...fa/company/ directory tree naming scheme), and after deleting company 2 and company 3 it still retains the same table prefix, which I believe is what you were trying to explain in another post above.

Once again,

Thanks

I stupidly deleted a company database from MySQL with phpAdmin. Not surprisingly, FA wouldn't delete the company. Then I deleted the .../company/1/ folder. Again, no go.

How do I now delete the company manually?