Once you open the database in your MAIN prg, you do not need to include the path in the SET DATABASE command.

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>>>>open data addbs(UNC_DATA_PATH) + "mydbc"
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>>at the beginning of your MAIN prg before you turn control over to the user.
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>Hi Mark,
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>I put the aboce in my MAIN.PRG and in the LOAD EVENT of one of my forms I wrote: "set database to "g:\data\data1.dbc" g: is a network drive.
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>Just to test if it works. and when I open the form I get the following message: "error instansiating cursor object. Cannot find c:\...\data1.dbc"
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>I think it searches the data in the default path. Is there somthing I should change in the data environment settings? or somewhere else?
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>Many Many thanks,
>Gadi Hutt