>>>I have a form with a listbox but when run from the exe on the network , the listbox is always empty. The directory it runs from is always the same local dir no matter which workstation and it HAS the data there. any clue?
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>>Do you mean that started from local drive Exe works Ok, and from net drive has listbox empty?
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>Right Ed, all the PC's have a local dir named identically, complete with the data, including mine, I run the prg locally and is ok, but when I issue ' do R:thisapp.exe, the listbox is void or invisible.

Try to run Exe (not prg) locally and see what happen. Basically, you check Listbox.Rowsource