Vista - Vista Program Files Folder Problem – Issue 1

Hello,
I usually deploy a package composed, among others, by a mde file (Compiled
Access File). The installation process is done with a msi file. So far so
good! However, sometimes, I need to update my program several times a day
and, to be simpler, I deploy to clients an exe file that just replace the mde
file. This can break some windows installation rules, but that’s enough!
Now, I’m doing this in four computers with Vista. Two of them are ok. In the
other two, my exe file apparently replaces the mde, but when the final user
run’s it, he didn’t get the last version that goes inside the exe file. He
gets the same previous version.
I have given full control permissions to the folder c:\program files\my
program. I suspect from Windows Resource Protection, but I’m not sure and I
don’t know what to do or what to search for.

José António Siva

Jose,
I am encountering a similar issue.

I have been using a MS Access 2000 database for quite some time. I have a
user who purchased a new computer with Windows Vista (I needed to install
Vista Business to accommodate our network). The OS has been SP'd to SP1.

Very simply, I created a directory in Program Files and placed a front-end
MS Access database in it and a back-end database into a subfolder; both are
..mdb versus .mde. The user has been using this database for evaluation and
testing. In the meantime, I have been updating the database application set
on my WinXP/Access 2000 computer. To deploy the updated database app, I
simply copied the updated database set to replace the existing set on the
user's machine. When the database was opened on the user's machine, the
data displayed was that of the OLD database, not the upgraded database.
Sanity check... "user, watch me do this" Open db app on my computer -- all
as it should be. Copy files to network share and copy them to user's
machine from the share. Open the app on user's machine -- OLD data.

I renamed the directory in the Program Files directory, manually created the
directory with the appropriate name along with the subdirectory, and copied
the database files into the respective directories. Now, with the exact
same update files as before, the database displays the NEW data. Further,
if I remove the new test directory and rename the original back to the
particular name, the database now opens with the NEW data.

I do see that no one has responded to your postings, at least into the
forum. I have experienced this before with complex, serious MS Access
issues. I hope you get a chance to see this follow up to your posting over
two months ago. If you have any thoughts or resolution, I would like very
much to hear from you.

rac
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Till now I have nothing. I’m wondering about asking Microsoft for this, since
they have a free support service for Vista through March 2009. But I see now
that this service is only to SP1 and I’m not currently sure that all of my
problems are here.
In advance, I know that changing the installation location to the desktop (I
think this is the same as to say outside program files folder) this problem
disappears.
José António Silva

"rac" wrote:

I forgot to tell you that I have tried to update my mde file with elevated
administrator rights, but it won’t work anyway.
I have tried this with Packet Builder (an installer program) that always has
worked pretty well in XP.
Here is a link for a post I have made in it’s forum
http://www.gdgsoft.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=3. You can see the answer
they gave me.


"rac" wrote:

Vista does not permit saving data files to the Program Files folder. For
backward compatibility if an installation tries to place files there they
are redirected to a "virtualized folder" which actually resides in the
"C:\Users\User_name\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\ MyApp" folder.
Storing data in the Programs Files directory has never been a good
practice and Vista actively prohibits it. The 'ProgramsData' folder in
Vista is intended for data storage.

The article below explains this and how to address problems like the one you
describe. See especially Scenario 3.

Common file and registry virtualization issues in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927387/en-us
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You're welcome.
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