Database Maintenance Plan - Can't select Remove Files Older Than .

Hello,
Having a strange problem and hoping that someone else has seen this before.
Have an up and running SQL Server 2000 (no problems that I can detect).
Trying to create a maintenance plan to backup the databases each night.
Start the maintenance plan wizard and get to the "Specify Backup Disk
Directory" screen and the "Remove Files Older Than" drop down box is blank,
can't select "Weeks", "Days", etc.
Have re-installed the Enterprise Manager tools and upgraded to SQL SP4, with
no change.
Thanks in advance for any help or insight.
Hi
Have you tried using the tools on a different machine or against a different
server?
John
"DHood" wrote:

> Hello,
> Having a strange problem and hoping that someone else has seen this before.
> Have an up and running SQL Server 2000 (no problems that I can detect).
> Trying to create a maintenance plan to backup the databases each night.
> Start the maintenance plan wizard and get to the "Specify Backup Disk
> Directory" screen and the "Remove Files Older Than" drop down box is blank,
> can't select "Weeks", "Days", etc.
> Have re-installed the Enterprise Manager tools and upgraded to SQL SP4, with
> no change.
> Thanks in advance for any help or insight.
|||hi dhood,
i have the same problem!
is it possible that this problem exists since you updated to sp4?
because in my case all sql2000sp4 have this problem, sp3 not...
with mangerstudio from sql 2005 this problem is gone, but others appear...
greets
jeff
"DHood" <DHood@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hello,
> Having a strange problem and hoping that someone else has seen this
> before.
> Have an up and running SQL Server 2000 (no problems that I can detect).
> Trying to create a maintenance plan to backup the databases each night.
> Start the maintenance plan wizard and get to the "Specify Backup Disk
> Directory" screen and the "Remove Files Older Than" drop down box is
> blank,
> can't select "Weeks", "Days", etc.
> Have re-installed the Enterprise Manager tools and upgraded to SQL SP4,
> with
> no change.
> Thanks in advance for any help or insight.