Have you used any of the "user" directories in your installations?

If so, they can look the same but they're not.

Regards,
Alastair.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ted Lienhard 
  To: RBASE-L Mailing List 
  Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:00 PM
  Subject: [RBASE-L] - Vista anomaly


  I had a very strange thing happen with a compiled 7.6 app being run on a 
vista machine.  The installation went fine, then the files were updated...but 
the old files were the ones that ran.  So I then ran the shortcut with the "run 
as administrator" box checked...all worked fine-all the files were updated 
correctly and the proper version of the program ran.  

  Then I ran it again without checking "as administrator", which should have 
worked as there were no folders being created, etc.  Surprise!  The OLD files 
ran...after being overwritten!

  Here's the really strange thing.  As a part of getting to the bottom of this 
problem, I deleted every instance of the application from the hard drive and 
started over.  Ran the installer "as administrator"-only the lastest version of 
the program was on the hard drive.  Ran program as administrator...everything 
worked perfectly.  So I tried running the program by simply double-clicking the 
shortcut (pointing to the correct location-confirmed)...the OLD forms came up 
again!  These forms were replaced in the new version.

  Summary:  Ran program as administrator...no problems.  Ran program 
normally...old version of program (which had been removed and deleted) ran.

  Does vista keep previously deleted files in an index?  Perhaps a "stateful 
backup" feature is hiding an old copy somewhere...I don't know.

  Any ideas out there??

  All the best,
  Ted

  Ted Lienhard CNE NCT
  Golden Valley Consulting


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