Whenever I see this, I just go to DOS and type "ATTRIB C:\TEMP -S".

Other cases where I have seen this problem is if the TEMP or TMP environment variables aren't defined.

>>c:\temp could be marked as a System folder.
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>>I have this problem temporarily, where the Windows temp folder I assigned is not a System folder for a while, then suddenly one day it is. I have no idea why it suddenly is.
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>In my case, terminal server was installed. Maybe this causes this problem ?
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>How to make temporary file folder back to non-system folder on NT server ?
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>>VFP ignores system folders. Cursors are created in memory but have a path assigned, but not necessarily disk presence.
>>When a DBF() (usu. w/ APPEND FROM DBF()...) or ALTER TABLE is fired on it, it tries to get it from disk. Since it ignores system folders, the file doesn't exist.
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>I checked that
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>SELECT ... INTO TABLE c:\TEMP\mytbl
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>works OK. Why in this case error does not occur ?
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>>You can include a config.fpw file in your exe with a TMPFILES directive to a folder that is definitely not a system file - like a relative path to "myapplicationstempfolder".
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>Unfortunately, I cannot re-compile exe file. I don't have exact source code. config.fpw file is included in .exe . I can add some init code to this
>.exe file using CodeBlock. However, VFP is unable to change TMPFILES setting in code.
>How to resolve this ?
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>Also, I have generic appication and idea not using OS temporary folder for temporary files seems strange.