>>>>>Are you setting a temp directory?
>>>I don't think so, I was under the belief if you don't set a temp dir then FoxPro will use the windows default temp dir
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>>No I think it uses the current startup directory - do you have full Read/Write/Create rights there?
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>>Ok one final try
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>>Are the files being access on a network drive?
>>Does it make any difference who you are logged onto the machines that error as?
>>If you run from within the DE on a machine that errors does it still error and can you get out any more useful error information?
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>I have full rights on every pc, 2 of the pc's have 98 i.e. no login
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>yea all the "data" is on the server, but that information isn't even accessed yet
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>but on the laptop and my home pc's the data is local d:\

Sorry that's me out of ideas maybe someone else can jump in with some suggestions.