>>I dont have that experience, if (by mistake) an image is assigned which is not in the search-path VFP will not hang, it will simply >>show no image, a cross, and will go on.
>>I believe there must be an other reason the application hangs, could you specify the code when this is happening.

It's difficult to reproduce, on a simple form it seems too quick to measure a difference, but I have seen it on a couple of installs and I experienced it today, I am create a "lite" version of one of our apps so copied all the files I though I needed to a new folder tree. I could'nt work out why the "lite" version was slower that the full fat, then I realised I had missed a couple of graphics off the transfer, I copied them and it ran fine.

Just tried to recreate with a simple form but it did not happen, maybe it related to how I use the graphics or the quantity. Sergey has confirmed VFP WOULD search through the SET PATH for the missing file.

Gary.