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VFP looking to the D: drive sometimes
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01/04/2013 18:55:22
 
 
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01/04/2013 15:02:17
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 7
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01569667
Message ID:
01569674
Views:
58
>Hi all,
>
>Users at a company I contract with have received new desktops. Their existing app runs fine until they use their D: drive (DVD) to pull up some documents (not from within VFP, just Adobe pdfs). They then remove the DVD from that drive.
>
>After that, when they open any VFP screen, VFP throws up a dialog saying "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive D:". The user can "Cancel" their way out of it but the dialog gets thrown up for every screen opened - until they reboot their PC.
>
>Not even sure where to start - does VFP store some pathing in the .exe that still points back to my dev machine (my dev machine has all the code on my D: drive). And somehow now on the new PC's, once they are used (per session), they become "alive" and VFP is looking to that drive first?
>
>Thanks,
>Albert

If you launch or connect to another program from VFP (directly or indirectly), the current directory information. might change. Some situations could include sending E-mail or outputting using some print drivers (e.g. some "virtual" printers that allow you to "print" to PDF).
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