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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 10
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Web
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Thread ID:
01628271
Message ID:
01628273
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53
>Hi,
>
>I have the following code that is supposed to set the current directory to a folder:
>
>
>cDirectName = "\\someservername\app_name\data_folder\"
>set default to (cDirectName)
>
>
>Sometimes the above works (on the customer server) but more often it does not. When I check - using CURDIR() - after the set default, it returns some other folder on the server. I noticed that it sets to folder "data_folder" but to a mapped drive (not mapped to the required folder).
>
>What should I change?
>
>TIA

I think you are missing the share name? Shouldn't it be like the following (unless app_name is the name of the share)
cDirectName = "\\someservername\share_name\app_name\data_folder\"
set default to (cDirectName)
"The five senses obstruct or deform the apprehension of reality."
Jorge L. Borges?

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
Donald Knuth, repeating C. A. R. Hoare

"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely"
Jorge L. Borges
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