>Hi Everybody,
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>I am asked to hide the data from the users on the workstations. However, these users should have read/write access to this data only in my application which is in vfp 9. They are mostly worried that the users might go by accident to the shared folder and delete the files from the main database. The idea is they can see and edit data through the application program only.
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>Does anybody have any idea that how this would be possible?
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>Thank you,
>Ali

You could use OS rights on the folder that contain the data files to be for a specific user (say APPUSER). Then, when you start your application, you use RUN AS and start the application under the APPUSER user. See the help for "runas".