>>Hi,
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>>I have the following code that is supposed to set the current directory to a folder:
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>>cDirectName = "\\someservername\app_name\data_folder\"
>>set default to (cDirectName)
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>>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).
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>>What should I change?
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>>TIA
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>I think you are missing the share name? Shouldn't it be like the following (unless app_name is the name of the share)
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>cDirectName = "\\someservername\share_name\app_name\data_folder\"
>set default to (cDirectName)
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I always set the "share_name" the same at the "app_name". So this is not it. It looks like the command "set default to..." looks at the mapped drive instead of the shared drive. But I am not 100% sure and not sure what causes it.
Thank you.
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