Juan,

>Good morning, I just wanted to switch from storing the system settings (DBC mainly) in the registry to an INI file (this is MM VFP 7).
>Changed application object’s lUseIniFile property and the program now creates the ini files.
>
>Now everytime that I either open the applicacion or the users preference form, the value for the DBC location changes to the curdir()+"data\" , since the data is not there, the application bombs.
>
>It seems like the preferenceform ....oLocalDataDirectory.cpreferencevalue property default value is taking over (=FULLPATH(CURDIR()) + 'DATA\').
>
>This should be easy, shouldn't it?

You need to make sure you have a [DBC Locations - Local] and [DBC Locations - Remote] setting in your ini file. For example:

[DBC Locations - Local]
projmgr=c:\projmgr\data\projmgr.dbc

[DBC Locations - Remote]
projmgr=c:\projmgr\data\projmgr.dbc

Alternately, if you want to use an ini file for all other settings, but want to store your database settings in the MetaDbc table, you can set your application's lUseDbcMgrMetaData property to true (and see the section in the MM VFP Dev Guide "Use the MetaData Database Manager" under the topic "Specifying Additional Database Containers".

Regards,