At 10:29 PM 20/06/2008, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>O.K. so I read as much as I could, and so far, going quite smoothly (ie
>conversion 2.0 to 2.1).
>
> I cannot use a valid 2.0 connection string in 2.1.

Why not?

>I used eg C:\Program Files\SupaStud\Data\*pref.fdb
>
> This way I could distribute my software, and each legal user, would have his
>own Preferences database, with certain encrypted strings in.
>
>Now I would distribute adrianpref.fdb to customer Adrian.
>
>The software would simply then connect using the above connection script.
>
>But now what?

Can't understand what you did by way of a "connection script". What kind of script was it?

In v.1.5, v.2.0.x and v.2.1 you would address this sort of requirement with database aliases, but your connection string wouldn't look like what you put here...

Or else I'm missing something...

./heLen