>I have an app designed under the following hierarchy:
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>app c:\myapp\myapp.exe
>data c:\myapp\data\*.dbf,*.cdx
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>The user, upon installation, may want to change the data to reside on the v: drive and may want to later move it to the m: drive. How do I handle this without making the user find the data everytime they run the app?

autoMAGICally? If they just go to Explorer and drag the data folder to another drive and/or path you have no other choice but to prompt them for the location of the data. Any of the VFP or API functions to locate a file only work if the file can be found along the path environment variable.