Recent content by Dan Olsson

No offense, but why are OS shutdowns a problem? You don't let Windows decide when to do them, do you? When it want to update itself I always shut down all programs before I reboot.

Have you checked the resource file?

I have about 150 clients at about 40 different places in Sweden. All have the same setup with the program and data on a server share. ONE of those clients was upgraded(?) to W11 and she immediately complained that everything got very slow. Everything worked but took some 3-4 times longer to do...

I guess I'm old-school 😂 I still only use 8.3 filenames and don't use Swedish diacritical letters either (ÅÄÖ)

My EXE is 800 Kb but I also have 15 APPs with a total of 1.5 Mb

If by "bulk" you mean spam, I don't want to help you. But if you mean sending invoices or confirmation to existing customers, that is "kosher" 😂 I have a system where our local branches sends backups and a lot of other files to our HQ. When they have been processed by the HQ server I send an...

I followed the tip but it didn't work. BUT with the next mail I got, I looked a little more careful. Although the colours are very pale, I discovered that it had a "disable emails" link at the bottom. THAT worked (so far) 😂

Well that's only true if you made a default install, right? I have mine in D:\Program\VFP9, so I can easily move the entire directory to another computer.

Good tip Mike. I don't think I need it though. I seldom use the help file, and when I do, the search function usually is sufficient 😂

In my limited experience of C5 errors (my users don't get them a lot), the line numbers in the error log aren't very useful. The crash could be at the same place, but line numbers can be different despite that. A reboot of the offending client usually fixes the problem.

Mike Lewis already told you it can be done and I agree. I'll tell you how I do it: I have a metadatatable where all tables are listed with both the DBF-Structure, the CDX-structure and other data regarding every table in the system. I never USE a table directly, it always goes thru an...

Thinking somewhat "outside the box" here :) Have you ever considered NOT using Windows stupid directory system? At my around 50 installations all over Sweden, everything is on a directory on a server. Inside that directory I have subdirectories like for example: DATA REPORTS IN OUT And so on...

What about using ALTERNATE instead? SET ALTERNATE TO 'FILENAME.LOG' SET ALTERNATE ON * Run program SET ALTERNATE OFF SET ALTERNATE TO

Not that this should do any difference in this case, but there's absolutely no reason to register the runtime DLL:s

Yes I can [dazed]