IMHO the one advantage of a mapped drive is if you have references to full paths stored anywhere, and you are running out of disk space or otherwise need to change to a different location/server, a single change to the drive mapping handles that migration. Having said that, if you're not living in the desktop/LAN world it's not all that useful.
-- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Friday, December 7, 2018 10:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Broken Windows UNC paths. use \\myserver\myshare\mytable.dbf open data "\\myserver\my share with spaces in the name\mydatabase.dbc" use mytable and so forth. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Fri, 7 Dec 2018, at 1:56 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 3:10 AM Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > There's absolutely no reason to use mapped drives in this day and age. > > > > What is the current best practice for accessing shared DBFs on a server? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/byapr10mb2934407b7ba459c438e006ccd2...@byapr10mb2934.namprd10.prod.outlook.com ** 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.
