Thanks Jason, I'd tried that and found nothing.

Finally cracked it last night - had to copy ALL the BPLs into the
system32 directory (not just the run-times) and it worked.

Steve

In article <011c01c1ef9c$1f7fcb50$dc756a41@CX170673E>,
jwharton@... says...

> Please do a disk-wide search for rogue BPL files. That is the only thing I
> can think of that may be messing you up.
>
> Jason Wharton
> CPS - Mesa AZ
> http://www.ibobjects.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Lee-Woolf" <s.lee-woolf@...>
> Newsgroups: egroups.ibobjects
> To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 1:16 AM
> Subject: [IBO] 4.2H Installation Problems
>
>
> > I have just tried (a copule of times) to replace my 4.0 installation
> > with 4.2H and am having a few problems. The steps I have taken so far
> > are:
> >
> > 1. Uninstalled all packages from component list
> > 2. Removed all obsolete palettes
> > 3. Deleted all files/subdirectories in the IBObjects root directory (c:
> > \d6tools\ibobjects)
> > 4. Deleted all ibo .BPL files from bpl directory.
> > 5. Checked presence of source and bpl directories in both browse and
> > search paths.
> > 6. Unzipped new release into IBObjects root directory.
> > 7. Opened project file and done a build-all. No errors or warnings
> > generated. .bpl files correctly generated in proper place.
> > 8. Attempted to install design-time packages. IBO40CDT_D6, IBO40ADT_D6,
> > IBO40WDT_D6 and IBO40WXDT_D6 all worked fine. IBO40TDT_D6, IBO40VDT_D6,
> > IBO40FDT_D6 and IBO40XDT_D6 all failed with the same error messages:
> > a. The procedure entry point@ib_metadata@initialization$qqvr could not
> > be located in the dynamic link linrary <filename>.
> > b. Can't load package <filename>. The specified procedure could not be
> > found.
> >
> > in each case <filename> was appropriate .BPL file for the module. ALL
> > these BPL exist in the correct place and were there before the install
> > attempts.
> >
> > The net result is that I have component tabs for iboAccess, iboCore,
> > iboTools and iboInternet, and nothing else.
> >
> > Am I missing something? Can anyone suggest where I go from here?
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Steve Lee-Woolf

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Steve Lee-Woolf
University of Salford
Manchester, U.K.