Hi Anatoliy

>I have found that RENAME command in the code above changes file security attributes, which makes the .Net Bitmap constructor fail.
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>So I have switched to another code solving this issue. The code replaces the image's content without changing its security attributes:
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>hFile = FOPEN(originalimage, 1)
>= FCHSIZE(hFile, 0)  && truncates the file
>= FWRITE(hFile, FILETOSTR(optimizedimage))
>= FCLOSE(hFile)
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Very nice solution!