>I finally got installsheild express 3.5 in VFP 8 to work. Problem is that it only does an all or nothing install. For first install that is ok. But in the future I will want to only distribute files that changed, i.e. the application (exe) file and selected tables.
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>I do
NOT want force an uninstall of the current version and I
DEFINITELY do
NOT want to wipe the tables which wiil contain the current data.
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>The upgrade paths view seems to imply that all existing files will be overwritten. Is that correct?
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>Can I do what I need to do, if so how?
You can have an empty copy of the database (with the new structure), and write a small program that does an APPEND FROM for every table.
To avoid "trigger failed", if you have a parent-child relation, you must copy the parent first. You can obtain the information with adbobjects(ArrayName, "relation").
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