Cannot create partition

Hi,
I am using Essbase 11.1.1.3
I tried to create transparent partitions on various applications, but it seems that's not working.
At first, I though that I made a mistake when I created it.
My last try was to create a partition between the application Demo and DMDemo. On a VM it works find, but on the Essbase server it doesn't work.
The MaxL is :
create transparent partition 'Demo'.'Basic'
area '"Actual"' sourcearea1
to 'DMDemo'.'Basic' at 'server' as 'admin' identified by '******'
area '"Actual"' targetarea1;
The error is : Cannot open object file: Basic
I checked that I was able to open the outline, etc.
Has ever one of you encountered this error?
Thanks for your help!

I have found the solution.
There was some dbb file which were created previously (but I don't know why..)
I deleted them, and it worked!
(I was inspired by this thread : Essbase Partitioning Issue

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