how to deal with 'resource file is not valid'

[Nifrabar]

Hi!

I am having error every time I start VFP9 (XP-home).

Error : 'resource file is not valid, overwrite it with a new empty one? Yes-No '

As far as I know this regards the foxuser.dbf so I choose 'YES'. As a matter of facts this did not solve the problem.
Than I deleted the foxuser files (dbf + fpt). No positive result.

Than I reïnstalled VFP but again no result.

At long last I deïnstalled VFP, removed every key in the registry holding the word 'foxpro' and than installed VFP back again.

But error remains!

What to do?

Any suggestion?

TIA
-Bart

 

[Dan Freeman]

Are you using the MS-supplied installer?

This error usually means something like the C++ runtime dll is a version off, but the standard installer should take care of that.

 

[Nifrabar]

I'm doing a normal VFP install from original CD.
-Bart

 

[Mike Lewis]

Bart,

I had exactly the same problem after I first upgraded to VFP 9.0.

If I remember right, I solved it by searching the hard drive for every instance of the two FOXUSER files, and deleting them. I see you also deleted the two files, but I'd guess there are still some other copies somewhere in the search path.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[Nifrabar]

Thanks Mike,
Having projects on several places which all might have own foxuser tables that might be right.
Will check and report back.
Thanks so far!
-Bart

 

[DSummZZZ]

A lot of times it can be an issue when the folder the resources file is supposed to be in has insufficient write rights too.


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[Nifrabar]

Dave,
As this is all on my developers-machine less of write rights is not the issue but thanks for pointing that for that was unknown to me.

Mike,
I search in all drives and removed every foxuser file.
That helped. No longer that error but now there is still a small other thing to solve. In normal when I quit VFP with a project active than that project is opened automaticly when I start VFP. But now every time I've started VFP I must open a project manual.

Is that possible a setting somewhere?

KR
-Bart

 

[Mike Lewis]

Bart,

That's an easy one.

Go to Tools / Options / View, and tick the checkbox labelled "Open last project on startup".

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[Nifrabar]

Mike,
Sounds possibly sily but that option has been ticked but disabled also....
-Bart

 

[TamarGranor]

Make sure you have SET RESOURCE ON. It sounds like when you deleted all the FoxUser files, you also told VFP not to use one.

Tamar

 

[Nifrabar]

Hi Tamar,

Thanks for pointing me to this.
Also the location of the resource-file as per 'options' had to be ticked.
All now again as usual.

thread might get closed

-Bart