>Hi Larry,
>
>I had a second lokk at my bmp-problem. Found that I had looked at the wrong property, but changing the path of the picture property didn't work anyway - just inserting the filename, VFP would all by itself add the default path anyway.

VFP stores the path to pictures using the relative path with respect to the form being edited. The UI engine of the Properties sheet display the actual full path. When launching the form, that path is explicitly checked and if the file is not there, the search path is used.