>I have an installation package that installs my application on the clients pc. The installation package (ASTRUM) at the end of its installation calls a foxpro program at the end of the installer process. On one 2000 machine (SP2)foxuser files are being created on the desktop even though I have a resource = off in the apps config.fpw file.
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>On another 2000 machine (SP4) they are NOT created, as well as two other XP machines. Same code different results.
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>I have tried to delete the foxuser.dbf & fpt but to no avail.
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>oWsh = CREATEOBJECT("wscript.shell")
>cDeskPath = oWsh.SpecialFolders("desktop")
>lcFilename = cDeskPath+"\"+"foxuser.dbf"
>IF FILE(lcfilename)
> ERASE &lcfilename
>ENDIF
>lcFilename2 = cDeskPath+"\"+"test.txt"
>IF FILE(lcfilename2)
> DELETE FILE lcfilename2
>ENDIF
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>I have two issues.... why are they being created and two why can't I delete them. I have tried with and without the ampersand. No go.
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>Anyone have any ideas?
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>Thanks in advance,
>
>Wayne


To erase them, you might also try putting quotes around the file name. For example: lcFilename = '"'+cDeskPath+"\"+"foxuser.dbf"+'"'