On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Dan Covill <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/19/2011 11:49 AM, Ted Roche wrote: >> What's the current guidelines on where a VFP executable should be >> installed, and where should the data be stored? >> > Not sure what the 'guidelines' are (whose? Microsofts?), but in the > last 25 years I have _never_ put an application .exe in Program Files.
I was more interested in "conventional wisdom" rather than the "Microsoft line" because it's likely folks here have actual working VFP applications out in the field. Microsoft can't claim that. > An application goes into it's own directory, preferably on a second > drive or partition (i.e., D: rather than C:), and the data as well. > > If the data is on a server, then there's no problem, but Win 7 (and > Vista also, I would guess) do some kind of 'virtualization' if you try > to write into C:\Program Files, which results in creating shadow files > you can't see. > > Doug Hennig has discussed this problem in great detail > > <http://doughennig.blogspot.com/2007/01/finding-paths-for-special-folders.html> > but I don't like the recommendation to put data files into > \users\xxx\appdata. As above, everything is much simpler if you just > make your own application directory. > > Dan Covill > Great reference, thanks, Dan! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ 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/[email protected] ** 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.
