I've seen problems with both DAO and ODBC lately related to the Windows Temp folder being marked System (or Hidden). I don't know if this is something that system administrators are starting to do more, but I seem to be seeing it more frequently. Anyway, it seems like there are several things that don't like a Temp folder with the System attribute set. Thanks for the heads up on Beautify.

>I recently had a problem with Beautify not working (see Thread#453543 for the initial problem)
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>The answer turned out to be that someone from our hardware team upgraded something on my machine and decided to set the VFP temporary files folder I had created to be the Windows temp file - thereby making it a System folder and unseen by VFP. Beautify didn't seem to like that.
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>I created a new temp folder, and all is hunky-dory now. :)
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>Thanks to those who put in their .02US