Hi Cetin,

My guess is that Microsoft is trying to prevent general users from accidentally overwriting or deleting system files/folders in the drive's main directory. This may be why Microsoft strongly encourages the "general" user to save new files to either "My Documents" or "Shared Documents," even though it probably doesn't matter where one saves new files (as long as nothing else is modified in the process and the folder has write access). **Although, I'm not sure what can be modified for a user without administrator status (thats not an issue with me though).

From a developer's perspective, I don't want to save my VFP projects to "My Documents," especially since that folder could be accidently deleted if I changed my personal logon account. I'm not sharing my VFP projects with anyone on my machine, so the "Shared Documents" folder doesn't make much sense to me either (nobody else uses my machine).

Anyway, I'm probably going to create my VFPProjects folder directly within the highest level drive directory/folder (C for me). I like your idea of putting all your FoxPro projects on a second drive (D), in case you need to reformat and reinstall the componenets on drive C. However, I only have one hard drive for now, so I will make the best with what I have.

Thanks for the advice. :-)
Dave

>>Hi,
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>>I've been developing VFP apps on Windows 3.x, 95, and 98 for a long time. Recently, I upgraded to Windows XP professional. One big difference I notice with XP, is that Microsoft encourages user created files to be saved to either "My Documents" or "Shared Documents." XP "seems" to discourage creating subfolders directly off the main drive directory. In fact, I see XP messages which recommend not making any modifications within the main drive directory. I suppose this could be read a few different ways, which is why I'm trying to clarify this.
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>>With Windows 95 and 98, I created a Client subdirectory/subfolder directly off the main C drive directory of my development machine, with many nested subfolders for various clients and their applications. However, after reading the XP messages, I'm not sure if this is standard practice anymore. I was wondering where other developers create VFP project directories/folders on their Windows XP development machines.
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>>Dave
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>Dave,
>I should have missed that recommendation :) I have all my projects under a folder like :
>d:\VFPProjects
>d:\VFPCommon && For files common to all projects
>I prefer d: instead of c: as I like to keep c: ready to be formatted/reinstalled. IOW in C I only have files that I'd not be very sorry if I lose them for any reason. However in the same manner I do not completely trust D: and using VSS and take copies of work on to c: and CD as well (paranoia:)
>Cetin