>Hello George,
>
>I have tried that but get a strange message requiring user intervention - this is a night time run - nobody to answer it ... message wants to convert the report from a latter VFP format - ???
>
>This is just a log.txt file!!!

Edgar,

I've seen this happen when opening a report in a version earlier than the one that created it. As a result (and I'm sure you've already done this), make sure that the executable, runtime DLL, and report are all created (with the exception of the DLL) in the same version.

If that fails, try opening the report exclusively as a table and PACK it.

Admittedly, both are pure SWAGs.

>BTW
>After all these years - Glad to see your still around --- MUTEX is now being used by all of my apps.

I'm like a bad penny< vbg >. As far as the Mutex goes, thanks for the kind words.