>>>>>>>>>>I have a form with a listbox but when run from the exe on the network , >o you use the same data (dbc,dbfs) running locally and on network?
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>>here's something interesting. The form has a dataenvironment and the cursorsource is set to the residence on the local drive. should this make a difference. The same bad results occurred when I copied the form to the r:drive and tried to execute it. So this seems to be more at where the problem lies, not the exe.
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>You hit the basic network DE issue. The idea is to reset Database/Cursorsource properties programmatically in DE.BeforeOpenTables event. However, don't try to copy separate forms to server, etc., it's better to move step by step, i.e. compile exe/app and run it, btw normal VFP installation assumes exe located locally and data on server.

Actually you hit upon it just prior when you mentioned having 2 copies of the data. There was an old copy on the R:drive so I deleted it. And now it works. I did NOT know that An App looks for data on the drive it was executed from
even though the work directory is the curdir(). I posted this in essence a few minutes ago. I guess I'll have to be careful to avoid this in Future.