The "delete the 'Distrib' problem" is particularly important if you were running VFP5.0 and building executables, and then you install the Visual Studio Service Pack (upgrading you to VFP5.0a). The 'Distrib' directory will still have the original vfp500.dll "sliced and compressed" in it, so your new executables will be installing the "old" vfp500.dll and that can cause problems. I hope this snafu is fixed in VFP6.0!
Kevin E. Stroud
>>I have an application for which I have built an executable, run setup wizard and distributed disks several times. Always with no problem.
>>I recently made some upgrade changes in some of the forms and put on a different icon, then rebuilt it--but when the user
>>takes the disks and runs the setup it gives this error:
>>ERROR 279 OBJECT 240 Your Setup files may be damaged, try restarting the Setup Program.
I recently had this exact problem. I called Microsoft and this is the suggestion that worked. Under your VFP folder there is a folder named 'Distrib'. Delete the entire contents of this folder and rerun the Setup wizard. VFP will reconstruct the contents of the Distrib folder. Be sure you do this in the Distrib folder, not the Distrib.src folder.
Dana
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