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    Run as Administrator in Win 7 and files do not show up

    Hello all,

    I've begin to tinker with Alpha Five again and am glad to have the chance. Love Alpha's products as it can make life SO much more simple.

    In the process, I've setup some tables, sets, forms, and reports that I created years ago and am starting to use them again. Works well, so far. Tried creating a button to Email a Report. Upon hitting the button to email the report, received a message advising to that the PDF driver is not installed asking if I want Alpha Five to try to install it. I select yes and am told I need to log onto computer with administrator privileges and I am on as administrator. To comply, I right click on the program and select "Run as Administator". Program loads fine HOWEVER, many of my tables and sets and forms and reports do not display and are missing. When I load program normally, they all return. Weird.

    While I do not think the missing files when running as administrator are an alpha problem, thought maybe somebody may know how to correct that and offer a solution. I am hopeful.

    Also, would appreciate a point in the right direction on being able to get the Alpha PDF driver going.

    God it feels good to be working with A5 again. This software beats the heck out of anything out there. You should see how some of the people at "corporate" do things where tons of time could be saved by using A5.

    Thanks in advance for help and suggestions.

    Mike
    Thank you,
    Mike Konoff
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    Re: Run as Administrator in Win 7 and files do not show up

    Show us a screenshot of the detail view of the tables/sets tab of the control panel. Are your table in multiple directories?

    Come to think of it, I don't believe A5V9 is win7 compatible. Are you running in XP compatibility mode?
    There can be only one.

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      Re: Run as Administrator in Win 7 and files do not show up

      All tables & sets "look" like they're in the same directory, which is...

      c:\program files\a5v9\aero

      However, I have found another location, as follows...

      c:\users\Mike Konoff\AddData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\a5v9\aero

      Looks like when I was working with A5 running in Win7 mode, the files went into the virtual directory while A5 displayed everything in the c:\Program Files\A5v9\aero folder.

      When I go in WinXP mode, only the files that are in the shorter c:\Program Files\a5v9\aero folder are displayed and not the files in the virtual folder.

      I'll try and get that all straightened out and see if I can get the PDF to work then & report back.

      Thanks!
      Mike
      Thank you,
      Mike Konoff

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        Re: Run as Administrator in Win 7 and files do not show up

        If I remember correctly, the general advice is to install Alpha outside the program files directory under win7. Especially a non compatible version and double especially the database files themselves.
        Last edited by Stan Mathews; 03-28-2013, 06:50 PM.
        There can be only one.

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          Re: Run as Administrator in Win 7 and files do not show up

          I set it up to run in WinXP mode and moved files from the virtual directory to the one they should be in. I was able to get the PDF to send when using A5's built in emailer. Won't work when set to send using Outlook 2010, which I wouldn't necessarily expect since 2010 is much newer version than A5V9.

          While I'd rather have it send via Outlook so that I can have a copy in my sent folder, I can always CC: or BCC: myself and have the email in a folder in outlook.

          What's the reasoning for installing the non-compatible version of Alpha outside of the program files folder as well as the database files?
          Thank you,
          Mike Konoff

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            Re: Run as Administrator in Win 7 and files do not show up

            I think so win7 doesn't try to "manage" it/them for you.
            There can be only one.

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              Re: Run as Administrator in Win 7 and files do not show up

              I think Stan covered this well.

              I been running v7 on win7 since win7came out.

              developer goes into c:\program files (x86) and app into c:\whatever folder you want and run as xp

              runtime goes into c:\whatever folder you want except program files & protected places and app as above and run as xp

              Actually, I don't worry much about compatibility, but it may have to be in some cases.
              Dave Mason
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              Skype is dave.mason46

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