It's hard to suggest anything because it's not clear what the problem is.

>I have 2 copy of the same application in 2 different folders. The app uses FireBird as the back-end so there are 2 places where the data folder pathname details are stored. One is the ODBC connection and second the aliases.conf in the FireBird folder.
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>Start one, then the other and the pathnames are replace even when both the apps are running.
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>If there is a way to generate a constant (short) code for the folder of the data pathname, I intend to append this code to the current project identifying ODBC as well as the alias names.
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