I have VFP9 app originally developed on XP and then moved to a Windows 2008 server. A form in the app has a property for a data path (something like d:\datafolder\datapath\). When the form loads, the ":" is stripped out of the property value, and of course the program fails because the resulting path is invalid.

Clearly this is a platform issue - is there something we can do in the App or in Windows to correct the problem? We can certain change the app to pull the path info from metadata instead, but I would like to understand why this is happening.

TIA for your help,
Margaret