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Go with 64 bit Win 7????
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02/11/2009 17:50:41
 
 
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02/11/2009 12:53:33
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01414224
Message ID:
01432806
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83
>Well, one bummer in using VFP on a 64-bit Win 7 machine, is that the VFP app is installed in a folder named
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>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\
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>(Notice that little (x86) part...
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>So, that means if you work on a Project file from one machine that is Win 7 64-bit, and another that is not, (like my desktop and my laptop), then the project may reference some resources by a path that is not on the other machine.
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>For instance, after installing WIn 7 64-bit, I opened my main project file, but it could not find a FCC classlib that was referred to by the path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\Ffc".
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>I suppose I could copy the FFC folder out of the VFP install dir, and copy it under the folder where I keep all my custom VCX's and other custom resources so that I do not reference a VFP path. In the past, I have never copied the FFC stuff out of the VFP dir.

Who is forcing you to install in that path? I have always installed VFP on every machine I used in C:\VFP9.

No long path with spaces and no pathing problems.

Bernard
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