Ted, After some wrestling with this issue, I've been requiring customers to install into a folder off the root (c:\productname), and haven't had any problems at all (so far) with doing so. Data files are generally stored in subfolders of this folder, with exceptions for large read-only tables to live elsewhere to streamline backups.
Bill > I've got a client with a VFP9 SP2 exe I've just installed onto a > Windows 7 Pro 32-bit machine. They've got a nice little installer that > I'm sure they spent a bit of time getting right. > > The problem is that they install into C:\Program Files and have > settings DBFs in that directory and data and temp directories under > that folder. As an ordinary user of Windows 7, I'm running into > permissions problems writing to those files or creating new ones. I > suspect this is A Good Thing and it's better to go along with it than > hack at the machine to try to get it to do something it was not > designed for. > > What's the current guidelines on where a VFP executable should be > installed, and where should the data be stored? > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/0549F35BF5424C4A9A622F6944C3A2AD@bills ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
