Re: A Windows weirdness

2024-08-14 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2024-08-13 21:24, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: It turned out that the issue was that I was reading the data as put URL format("binfile://%s", tPath) into tData this was working, but now returned "can't open file". Changing the statement to put URL format("binfile:%

Re: A Windows weirdness

2024-08-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'm guessing here: Paths on local Windows systems are typically driveletter:folder\folder\...\file.extension Window scan use UNC paths, such as: |\\Server2\Share\Test\Foo.txt| || When we had our first customer who was extensively using UNC paths, our software broke until we updated it to allo

A Windows weirdness

2024-08-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
An app running nightly by schedule on a Windows VM stopped working when the IT department cracked down on security, downgrading the privileges of the user. When this was reversed - and they swore there were no other changes - it still didn't work properly because it failed to read some local dat