>Borislav
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>>What is the very first error your users see?
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>Thanks for your help here. it seems the first error message seen is the
>'Collating sequence PINYIN not found' one. I am trying to trace what might have changed since the last revision of the same software - as this did work! But so far, nothing obvious, Denis

Changed Config.fpw (CODEPAGE=?) ?
If the current codepage not support the desired collating this error happens.
New indexes in Tables?
New tables?
Changed SET COLLATE TO?