thanks. I did a find for D:\ves\data in the registry but it found nothing. So I went looking eles where.
__Stephen
>Stephen,
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>>Ok, Kevin I have renamed the directory on my laptop to be different from that of the server. When I try to run main it cannot find the database.>
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>It sounds like your application is set to store settings in either the Windows Registry (or possibly an .ini file). To verify this, run RegEdit from the Windows "Start|Run". In the Windows Registry, check out the following setting:
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>HKEY_CURRENT_USER
>Software
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>DBC Locations - Local
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>Regards,