>>To find the path
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>>=messagebox(set('path'))
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>>also it could be that the default directory changed by some reason?
>Naomi,
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>I put MessageBox(set('path')) and MessageBox(sys(2003)) in the RI_Delete code just before it call DBF(lcChildWkArea) that gets the full path to the child table, and then after it gets the full path to the child table, I use MessageBox(pcChildDBF) to display it. pcChildDBF has the wrong path, but neither the search path nor the current directory contains that wrong path.
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>Very strange.
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>I appreciate your suggestions.
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>Of course, I can just rename the folder that it is using to get the wrong path, and the problem goes away. But, I sure would like to know why this is happening.
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>Jim

It's a puzzling problem indeed. One more idea - do you have bad database included into the project?