V4RB 2.5.3 Indexing crash, again

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/1/07 8:41 PM, "Steve Albin" <steve at steve-albin.com> wrote:

>> IMPORTANT UPDATE: I just had a friend test out the download and he reports
>> that when he 
>> places the database in what he calls a "rooted" directory, the program does
>> not crash.  
>> (i.e. D:\DATAFOLDER\database.vdb)  When he puts the same file in the Desktop
>> or My 
>> Documents folder, the program will crash creating the index.  I'm not that
>> familiar with 
>> Windows to know why this would make a difference.
>> 
> 
> I'm replying to my own post because I have more information regarding this
> problem and maybe a solid work around.
> 
> In my testing I use Virtual PC.  Don't know if that makes a difference, but I
> thought I should mention it.  I use InnoSetup to install my app into
> C:\Program Files\MyApp\MyApp.exe.  I was storing my database in the My
> Documents or the Desktop directories.  I keep all the VComponents files in the
> same directory as my app and do not attempt to set any path to a central
> location.
> 
> I just moved my app to C:\MyApp\MyApp.exe AND the database to
> C:\MyData\mydata.vdb and everything now works fine.  ???  This explains why
> the same app on the Mac works fine when the Windows version crashed.
> 
> There must still be something in my app causing this crash, because when I
> tried to make a smaller app using an exact copy of my DB classes, that app
> worked wherever I put it without crashing.  Something in my app is causing
> Valentina not to like it when I place the app in a directory with spaces or
> special chars in the name.

Aha,

So if you will change name of folder

    C:\My App\MyApp.exe
        ^^^

Then it again will start to crash ??


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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