>>When I look at the Z: drive, the file SYSDATA.DBF is not changed. It still has the old date and time stamp.
>>Yes, when I try to open the application, again, from the desktop shortcut, the application fails - because I changed the application location.
I wonder whether this involves VirtualStore that helpfully creates a hidden copy of config files in the installation folder so those files can be updated by standard user accounts.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1