>I have an app designed under the following hierarchy:
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>app c:\myapp\myapp.exe
>data c:\myapp\data\*.dbf,*.cdx
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>The user, upon installation, may want to change the data to reside on the v: drive and may want to later move it to the m: drive. How do I handle this without making the user find the data everytime they run the app?

Just make them find the data every time they move it. IOW, only prompt them to find the data when the app can't find it.