>>Gary,
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>>Thanks for the reply. Yes, we do run the .exe from a network drive. Moving it to a local drive on each computer would create a management nightmare for us, so that is not really an option.
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>>Thanks again for your help,
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>Hi russell
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>why don't you run you exe via a launcher that checks the server for updated versions and copies it to the local drive when appropriate.
>Thats often been recommended here as the most efficient way to handle your application over a network. And it should solve any version management problems.

Exactly. It's an old trick that I've seen solved at least six ways, and I wrote at least three more myself (even in FPD2.6 sixteen years ago), and don't remember any managerial problems (except one case when the user didn't have the rights on local drive). Also solves the problem of uploading a new version - it's not in use, you don't have to tell them all to quit the app. Once, during some emergency fixes, I had at least three versions running simultaneously, no problem at all, only one workstation where the problem happened had to reload, the others didn't even need to know there was a fresher version on the server.