chris.mo...@biuk.co.uk wrote:
Sooo...... my program is ALWAYS running and I can't rename because
someone else has it open.
Can someone give me a clue?
I cannot solve your immediate problem because it really is a tough one.
But I can offer a solution that has worked for many years that takes a
small bit of prep work:
My strategy for this problem is to create a stub program that everyone
runs (shortcuts point to it, etc.). The stub program looks in its folder
for other programs with the same name but numeric suffixes. For example,
MyProg.exe is the stub and MyProg_01.exe and MyProg_02.exe are two
versions of the real MyProg application.
The stub looks for the highest numbered suffix and runs that program and
then exits. That's all it does. It is a console program that does not
talk to the user.
The user then is running the MyProg_02.exe program.
To make an update, you copy in a new MyProg_03.exe and wait for all
users to restart the application. To have users update to the new
version, just tell them to exit and restart the application using their
normal procedure/shortcut.
Eventually everyone will be running MyProg_03.exe you are free to delete
MyProg_02.exe if you want. Note that a byproduct of this scheme is that
you have an immediate way of reverting to a prior version in an
emergency by renaming or copying Myprog_02.exe as MyProg_04.exe and
telling everyone to restart. No muss, no fuss.
For this scheme to work there is no need to change your original
application (except the final name of the exe). The stub program can be
used to stage many different apps if you write it to look at its name
and look for similarly named exe files. Just rename it YourProg.exe and
it will work with YourProg_01.exe and YourProg_02.exe, etc.
This solution works for any file server and network, regardless of
version. Has been used since Windows 95 without problems.
--
Doug C.
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