Subject Re: inno indexing problem? Sorta solved From Charlie <tm@tc.com> Date Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:51:05 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Hi Ken...  Thanks so much for all the information.  I do have your books but I think I have a learning disability as I don't retain much if it isn't what I am trying to do while reading.  That is why I love this forum! My bad for not studying inno more.  I have learned a lot in this discussion though. What I am trying to avoid is publishing this program and someone is using it.  Possibly I could miss an error that could pop up and the user gets the error which more or less makes the program break with multiple errors.  And of course the user wouldn't have any clue how to fix it.  I am thinking because I am using the programdata instead of the appdata.  With an error it  somehow confuses everything unless you delete the new folder in appdata.   So I am thinking of using appdata instead of programdata. But since I don't know the user's folder name how would I set the bde?  Would it be something like users\default\appdata\local\mydata?   I am not sure if that would work on all windows  computers. Thanks again.... Ken Mayer Wrote: > On 8/5/2024 5:47 AM, Charlie wrote: > > Hi Ken..  Thanks for the info. > > > > I found that most of my problems were due to changing locations.  Some of the old data didn't delete as I thought it would and was causing big confusion. > > > > There will be some more problems that I will have to fix because of the changes but hopefully downhill from here. > > > > I have one problem that causes an error that I have to fix.  But I have a question about this.  When the error appears and I ignore it,  it causes other problems until the program shuts down. > > > > And then you can't start the program again until you reinstall the inno setup. > > > > By accident I found an .ini file in users\local\appdata that was created because of the error or crash I think. > > > > If I delete that file instead of setup inno again the program runs fine unless I create the error again. > > > > I am just curious why this .ini file is created and why  in users?  I am thinking this had been created yesterday early in the process and was the reason for the major confusion. > > > > The one in the users folder is the one actually being used by your > executable. If it doesn't exist, dBASE (your executable, in this case) > will look in the programdata or some other folder where the executable > is, and copy it to that location. If there is no other .ini file, then > it just creates a basic one which may not have all the settings you > need. This is discussed in my books ... > > Ken > > -- > *Ken Mayer* > Ken's dBASE Page: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase > The dUFLP: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/index.htm#duflp > dBASE Books: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Books/dBASEBooks.htm > dBASE Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Tutorial/00_Preface.htm > dBASE Web Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/WebTutorial/00_Menu.htm > dBASE DOS to Windows Tutorial: > http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/DtoWTutorial/00_Menu.htm >