>>This VFP app has been running since 2001.
>>It runs on a Win server and is accessed remotely by a single user.
>>The base folder is Q:\pro6
>>Yesterday, an entire folder that holds most of the programs in the app- Q:\pro6\ac\- just disappeared.
>>The user can't access the folder.
>>What's up?
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>Yousfi's #2 item is a common cause of this. In Windows Explorer it's too easy to inadvertently drag an entire folder someplace else.
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>If that's the case a search in Windows Explorer for a file you know should exist should find it. If the move was done by an admin, it may now be in a folder that only an admin can access and/or search.
As far as I can tell, no one used the Windows Explorer.
The user can only access the system via the VFP app and can't see the Explorer.
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.