It's set there, but opens to a different working directory,
C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER\DESKTOP\. It should open in
\\vmware-host\Shared Folders\DataPerf, but does not. Since the
properties file works in and for WinXP,I don't think the short name
limit is an issue. For that matter, it isn't an issue for choosing new
directories in DataPerfect, either, since pasted \\vmware-host\Shared
Folders\DataPerf works when I choose a new directory.
Don
On 02/05/2013 11:27 PM, Bob DeRosier wrote:
You can set the working directory in the properties for the
dataperfect shortcut to point to the actual directory you want (
bearing in mind that DP only handles 8 char folder names - so you
might want to MAP or SUBST a drive letter to the folder you want)
Bob
At 06:39 PM 05/02/2013, Don Codling wrote:
IâEUR^(TM)ve been following this thread with interest, looking to the
future, and the future just arrived when my computer died.
IâEUR^(TM)ve installed VM player (free) and the VM Toolshop, running
WinXP SP3 (up to date) because I donâEUR^(TM)t think my Win95 allowed
me to cut and paste from WP. IâEUR^(TM)ve set it up to share my Win 7
Data Perfect directory. But it is a pain to use. When I open Data
Perfect, it uses as its default directory C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER\DESKTOP\,
instead of the directory in which it is installed
(\\vmware-host\Shared Folders\DataPerf). So when I try to open one of
my databases, it isnâEUR^(TM)t there. If I delete the default
directory and paste in \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\DataPerf, the
subdirectories with my various data bases are available, but when I
choose change directory, it does not display them, as it used to do.
I need to remember the directory name and type it in. Is this
inherent in a virtual machine? Or have I missed something in my
setup? Don Codling Windows 7 home, 64 bit, up to date DP 2.6X 4
GBytes RAM On 23/03/2013 11:20 PM, Eric Donn wrote: > Hi all, > >
Like Brian I use VMware Player - and the virtual machine is Windows
XP. I use tamedos, and using Uwe Sieber's freeware DOS fonts in
combination with the screen size on the layout tab of a shortcut to
DP you can get the DP almost the size of the screen but windowed. >
Also like Brian I use predominantly W7 64bit but also have some XP
and W7 32bit machines, and I also run virtual machines. I have
virtualised MSDOS and IBM PCDOS 2000 but that does not allow the use
of DPSpool. It takes less than an hour to get up and running with
VMware player. > > VMware workstation costs around $200 US and that
allows you to clone virtual machines. > > Regards > Eric Donn >
Director > J.I.T. Systems Ltd > âEURoeZERO DOWN TIME OR WE FIX IT FOR
FREEâEUR? > > > -----Original Message----- > From:
[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of
[email protected] > Sent: Sunday, 17 February 2013 11:00 >
To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Screen size
win7/32 > > G'day Geert, > > But there are often compelling reasons
to use the 64bit variant. I have so many computers with so many
variants of operating systems, versions of applications I have
written, versions of Microsoft Office etc that I need to still
occasionally support. So in the interests of de-cluttering, and
reducing my electricity bills (cutting greenhouse emissions and
saving the planet) I decided I should dump the machines and create
Virtual images of them, and load them in VMWare, so I have reduced my
PC's down to 2 (you got to have one spare if the other breaks down).
Windows 32Bit cannot access enough RAM for my liking, but with my
Windows 7 64-bit with 16Gb RAM INTEL i7, I can run three or four
Windows sessions simultaneously each using an optimal amount of RAM -
and in fact individually they each run faster as VM on the newer
hardware than they ran as physical machines. Also many machines
comes preloaded with the 64Bit version of Windows 7, or my clients
have them, so it's not going to go away. > > But if I need to run a
virtual machine for a specific application, eg DP, I do not want to
use a slower more resource hungry operating system than I need, also
if you use say Windows 7 - 32Bit as a virtual machine, any changes
you make to the virtual hardware potentially means you have to
reactivate Windows, and if runs out of activation before Microsoft
thinks you are a pirate you have to call and explain and beg
Microsoft to let you reactivate. Which is why I advocate if you go
the virtual PC way, you go for the slimmest non-activating OS that
you can work with. > > Bye > Brian > >
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