>>>>Hi folks, I'm confident this question has been discussed before but I've not been around a lot lately and haven't seen this discussed. So my question is: Are there any issues with running VFP9 on Win7? The reason I ask is I'm about to get a new box and need to decide which OS (XP vs Win7) I want installed. So any insights will be appreciated.
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>>>>Thanks
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>>>Go go go... No problem here with W7 ultimate 64 bits.
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>>Well folks, I have made the switch and I have found one problem that has me really stumped, although I'm not sure if its a win7 problem or something related to the new configuration. I have a file, userdata.dbf, that I routinely use to keep local info about the user. There are lots of these floating around on my box. At least one for each project. I have found that when I copy this file to a new location, (like to the desktop or a network server) it usually appears to copy properly, but when I open it, the new copy contains old data, not the current data that was in the original. The new copy is the correct file, not one from another project, but the data is wrong. It's like windows is providing the new copy from an old casche somewhere and not from the original source.
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>>Has anyone else seen anything like this? It's maddening.
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>In Windows 7 you should not write to the folder where your application is installed - you need to write into %ProgramData% folder instead.

Hmm. . . I can fully read/write/delete to both locations (local is win7, remote is winserver 2008). I have full administrator access and the copy is being done outside of VFP (just a plain windows copy), so I don't see where it would make a difference. btw- I get the same result regardless of the direction of the copy. The local ends up with version 1 of the file and the server ends up with version 2. This is true even if I delete the target first.