To further test this, I logged on to a user's computer and performed the task, W/O the error!!! The offending code "append from (zn) delimited" does not offend when my account performs the task. But the error message the users get "FILE DOES NOT EXIST" still remains a mystery. Seems to be erroneous.
>>P: drive is a networked drive & was created especially for any temporary files and general convenient holding place.
>>They do not appear to lose any connection as milliseconds before the "error" occurs, they successfully create a text file there.
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>Timothy,
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>I don't have many ideas left except for trying to use C drive instead for test purposes.
"Build a man a fire, and he's warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life."