Packaging Wizard problem

[Huey]

I have Office Developer and plan to distribute an adp using the Access
Runtime. In this way my client will save a bit of dosh.

During testing I have found a problem I don't know what to do about. Going
through the Packaging Wizard is straight forward but on installation an odd
thing happens. The adp will during installation be put in a folder in the
"C:\Program files\MyApp" folder. We all know that Access needs write
permission to both adp's and mdb's.

So the problem occurs when the user is regular user (ie. not administrator
on the machine). A regular windows user (W2K) does not have write permission
in anyting under the "C:\Program Files" folder so I get a an error.

What is the right way to go about this?

My first thought was to put the adp in a different folder but the wizard
doesn't allow for this.

 

[Huey]

Someone must know something about this... ?

I have found something the should work in theory but haven't tested. Perhaps
change the $(AppPath) in the setup.lst to something like C:\MyApp\MyApp.adp
although this is not recommended. (DefaultDir)

Knowing this is not the optimal solution I still ask: What is the best way
of solving this problem?

Ideas and comments very welcome.

 

[Paul Overway]

Your observation is correct. Users of your app need to be in the power
users group at minimum....or you'd need to somehow assign greater
permissions for users on the folder your app gets installed into. I've
always expected users to be power users or administrators on the PC,
although that may not be ideal either.