Bill,

Oh YES...been there, done that!!! On Win2000 PCs, that's the FIRST thing I check! ReadONLY attributes not getting reset during the install! InstallShield Express seems to handle that ok with the PCs I've installed on locally.

When you copy from a CD, the READONLY attribute remains ON, at least on Win2000 PCs.

I'll check out the DBC to see if any drive letters are getting stored. Although, the client is installing on drive C to match my development drive environment and it still seems to be a problem.

Might be a MereMortals issus...I'm still working on that angle.

Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it!



>Scott - Install CD? hmmm - once you install the app on your machine -
>what are the file attributes on the database container ?
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>application space 'stuff'
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>dbc's will store a drive letter (sometimes) for each item there.
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>if i copy a dbc from drive K to drive L, for example, I am betting that when I run my app in Drive L in will only touch the dbc in Drive L.
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>Alas - sometimes this is not the case - so I wind up stripping out drive letter designations in a 'beforebuild' event - it gets fired prior to compile.
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>mondo regards [Bill]