Recurring Corruption Caused by Network Timeout
PROBLEM
- Gorilla database gets corrupted due to background network disconnection.
CAUSE
Windows automatically disconnects from network drives after a specific time, if no network traffic to that drive is detected.
SOLUTION
Following these steps will disable this Windows function, and may solve recurring database corruption problems.
- Open an elevated command prompt (run the Windows Command Prompt as Administrator).
- Windows 10: Right click the Start icon and select Windows Command prompt (Admin) or Windows PowerShell (Admin) (depending on the version of Windows 10).

- Windows 7: Click on Start. In the search box type cmd. Right click on cmd.exe and choose Run as Administrator. Click yes to run the Windows Command Prompt as an Admin.

- Run the command: net config server /autodisconnect:-1
- You will get a "The command completed successfully.”

- If you get a "System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied." message, this is caused by the Command Prompt not being run as an Administrator (elevated).

For additional information please read the Microsoft Article:
Mapped Drive Connection to Network Share May Be Lost
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