Hi Alex,

Yes the database is excluded from the project, and I've included the database and it's related files.

The interesting thing is the error that comes up is referring to my development directory not the directory where the database has been placed.


Cheers
John


>>Now that I'm at the point of distributing my application for enduser testing, I figured that an executable would be the best way to achieve that.
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>>While it runs fine in my dev environment, as soon as I compile to a .exe and distribute with the database and tables, I get an error
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>>'the database for xxx could not be opened. Would you like to locate the owning database or delete the link...'
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>>I tried locating the database, but that just returned a read only error, and the location of the file is my development directory.
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>Make sure the database and tables are marked as excluded in the Project Manager. Else they would be included inside the EXE and therefore read-only. When excluded, the processor does not find them inside the EXE so it looks on the disk (path). You have to - of course - deliver your data subfolder (dbc,dbt,dbf,cdx,etc.)