>Joe,
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>To beat this horse for the last time.... from your responses I am reading that you suggest replacing the 5.0 client with the 6.0 client on the developer machines. What I also think you are eluding to since I have said that I cannot upgrade my 5.0 databases to 6.0 is that I can use the 6.0 client ot work with the 5.0 database.... is this what your are in fact saying? I cannot find any documentation supporting that fact (perhaps no surprise there...) other than the following text within the VSS help itself which doesn't seem to agree.
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>Using VSS 4.0a and 5.0 with VSS 6.0
>See Also
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>VSS 6.0 has a new database format. If you upgrade to this new format, VSS 4.0a, VSS 5.0, Macintosh, and UNIX 4.0/5.0 users will not be able to access the database until they upgrade.
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>The new database format must be enabled for faster database performance and label promotion.
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>Is this in fact what you are are suggesting and if so, I assume that this has been successful in your environment.
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>Dave
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When you install VSS 6 and it finds an existing VSS 5 database, you're given the option to convert it to 6.0 format or not. If you keep it in 5.0 format, you can access it with either a VSS 6 or a VSS 5 client. You can't have both clients on the same machine (at least I don't think so).