Re: vfp9 exe

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, at 5:36 PM, Ken McGinnis wrote: > We have a vfp9 SP2 program that has been running nearly bug free for > over 10 years. Only now we have a need to find out if anyone else is > using the exe in a specific folder. We allow many users to have their > own unique folder with their patient data files. > > So we log into folder 1 and another user is in folder 2. No problem. > > If we log into folder 1 and another user is in that same folder, again > no problem. Our software is multi-user down to the individual record > level. The problem is when the 2nd user comes in and needs to lock many > or all files to reindex or other procedures. How can the 2nd user know > that another user is there? Again it is not a problem until that 1st > user starts to do something, almost anything that requires accessing > files. All files are locked by the 2nd user so the 1st user starts > getting errors. > > We could try to lock the exe and that would fail so we would know > someone else is using the software. However, if that other user is > working with data in a different folder, we don't care so we do not want > to lock the exe. > > Hope that is clear > > > > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server]