Hi Walter,
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>What is the quickest way to determine whether a particular file is on the network or on the local disk.
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>I've got the following situation.
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>I'm using a FASTSTART utility that copies application files to the users application data folder, and start up from there.
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>This goes well as long as the user does not have a roaming profile. Then this folder is on the network, causing massive network traffic. Also, most likely the TEMP folder is also on the network.
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>I'm not onsite and have no authority to have anything to say about the configuration of the workstation. Therefore I want to be able to warn the users that they are running our software in a non-optimal way.
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>any help is appreciated
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>TIA,
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