File path not found

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Good day,
I am having a problem when compiling my app. I get the following error:
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I can browse this file in my dictionary, I don’t specify a file path in the Full Path field on the table properties, so it should pick it up in my application folder.

I am sitting with this problem for a few days now and I am now really giving up :wink:

It is the first time I am having this problem as I have many apps that work fine.

I am using clarion 9 with windows 10 pro.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Tjaart

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I have even given everyone full permissions on the TPS file properties and on the folder.

3

Perhaps the current directory has been changed somehow, for example by FILEDIALOG.

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I have even given everyone full permissions on the TPS file properties and on the folder.

5

You say “compiling my app” but I think you mean “running” ?

In the App open the Procedure you are running that is showing this message.
In an embed before Files are Opened insert a code like below.
If you are familiar to using Output Debug String then do that instead, or do it also.

IF ~EXISTS(NAME(SalesPerson) & .'TPS') THEN 
   message('File SalesPerson Name=' & NAME(SalesPerson) & |
           '||Path='& LongPath() & |
           '||DataPath='& SYSTEM{PROP:DataPath}, 'Procedure Name')
END

The NAME() will show the FILE Name() defined for the SalesPerson FILE.
If that File has no explicit path then the LongPath() will be prepended
… unless there is a PROP:DataPath set.

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Try setting the ‘Full Path Name’ to be the same as the file name
ie SalesPerson.TPS
If it’s not set then it may default to an 8 Character name like ‘SalesPer.tps’ which it may not find.
The other possibility as Carl suggests is that the SYSTEM{Prop:DataPath} is set to something invalid. That can be set on the App Properties, File Control Tab