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Quickest way to determine if file is local or on network
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19/05/2006 13:41:52
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
 
 
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19/05/2006 13:37:58
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01123634
Message ID:
01123638
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Thanks for that. However, it would sove the issue for mapped drives, but what about UNC paths ?

Walter,




>>All,
>>
>>What is the quickest way to determine whether a particular file is on the network or on the local disk.
>>
>>I've got the following situation.
>>
>>I'm using a FASTSTART utility that copies application files to the users application data folder, and start up from there.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>
>You could extract the drive name from the file name and use DRIVETYPE().
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