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Database Pathing Issue
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22/02/2008 12:55:11
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01295448
Message ID:
01295450
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9
>I have an app which had hardcoded paths all over it. I have moved the pathing into an INI file.
>One thing we wanted to do was provide a way to move the data to another location, so an entry
>in the INI file makes sense.
>
>The problem is now the DBC. The forms in this app have tables in their DE's, which are pointing
>to the old DBC location. Event though the OPEN DATABASE command is pointing to the location from
>the INI file, the DE's are looking at the old copy of the DBC. One possibility is removing the tables
>and views from the DE's and use a data class or CA, although this would be a tremendous amount of
>work.
>
>How do I solve this issue?

You can also open tables in the Form.Load() Event. I think this would be simpler than a data class or CA, but it might still be lots of work to review hunderds of forms, for example.
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