Help with pathing problem!

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I have a proprietary software that references this path...

c:\documents and settings\john\desktop\plans

....My problem is that we just added a new domain controller to our network
and my user profile changed. My new path is this...

c:\documents and settings\john.domain\desktop\plans

So, needless to say, my proprietary software package will not function
correctly because my path changed. It is not possible to alter the path
names in my proprietary software.

My first thought was the possibility of some sort of path substitution so
that when my computer accesses the old profile path it is somehow mapped to
the new profile path.....don't know. I have looked into using the SUBST.EXE
command for this but it will only support drive letters and not full paths.
Anyway, I am open to other methods of solving this problem.

Any suggestions? Please help! Production environment!
 
I have a proprietary software that references this path...

c:\documents and settings\john\desktop\plans

...My problem is that we just added a new domain controller to our network
and my user profile changed. My new path is this...

c:\documents and settings\john.domain\desktop\plans

So, needless to say, my proprietary software package will not function
correctly because my path changed. It is not possible to alter the path
names in my proprietary software.

My first thought was the possibility of some sort of path substitution so
that when my computer accesses the old profile path it is somehow mapped to
the new profile path.....don't know. I have looked into using the SUBST.EXE
command for this but it will only support drive letters and not full paths.
Anyway, I am open to other methods of solving this problem.

Any suggestions? Please help! Production environment!
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Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
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I have a proprietary software that references this path...

c:\documents and settings\john\desktop\plans

...My problem is that we just added a new domain controller to our network
and my user profile changed. My new path is this...

c:\documents and settings\john.domain\desktop\plans

So, needless to say, my proprietary software package will not function
correctly because my path changed. It is not possible to alter the path
names in my proprietary software.

My first thought was the possibility of some sort of path substitution so
that when my computer accesses the old profile path it is somehow mapped to
the new profile path.....don't know. I have looked into using the SUBST.EXE
command for this but it will only support drive letters and not full paths.
Anyway, I am open to other methods of solving this problem.

Any suggestions? Please help! Production environment!
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A couple of possibilities:-

1) The software package has a registry entry with the path as it was when it
was installed. Use regedit to find the reference to the old path and modify
it to the new one. (Usual warnings about playing with the registry!)

2) The package has some sort of .ini file with the path in it. Search files
in the package's folder for the reference. If it's in a text file, edit the
path to the new one.

If neither of these things enable you to use the package, you may have to
uninstall / re-install it.

HTH
--
John Thow
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Bob I said:
New term! Sort of like "wellness" instead of "healthy".
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Please tell me a better term to use.

There is a problem with my path, therefore I would assume it is a pathing
problem. Maybe it should be called a directory problem.
 
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