Ok now I'm talking to myself. ;) Just excluding the about form and recompiling the .app works, so my problem is solved.

However I would like to know why vfp is always finding the included about.scx and not the one the I'm referencing.


>Wait. That is what's causing the problem. the app does happen to have an form named about that's included. when I remove the about form from the project it works fine?????
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>Like I said I do store the full path to file selected. Any ideas how to get around it?
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>>>Hi!
>>>I think, you have about form included into project, and VFP opens file from EXE content.
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>>Nope, I store the full path to the file. This happens on any form named about.scx. I tried it on 4 different about.scx files in 4 different folders that have nothing to do with this project.