>>Hi Bob.... my problem is I have two databases (these are the same databases). After installation of this vfp50 program, one of the databases is on the user's
>>local computer and the real database is on a network drive. When the user is ready to use the real database, she changes the path to the network dirve.
>>If fox checks the default drive first, it finds the database and I have a problem, because the user should be using the database that the path is set
>>to. any ideas what I can do?
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>How does she 'change the path'???
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>Do you provide a data path selector in your app? If so you can change the default directory to where the data is. Data in default directory is the best way to go. You change the default directory and when you bring up a form that has the hard coded paths removed, it opens the tables in the default directory.
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>BOb
hey bob,
so you are saying to...
set default to my_data_path
instead of....
set path to my_data_path
:)