Nope that wasn't it. Had a path with two consecutive semi colons. Removed one and still got the error.
Thanks though.

Richard


>>I've recently started getting the following error message upon start VFP8: "Error locating config file--bad path?". I've deleted the foxuser.??? files that the instance was using. This didn't work. Any more ideas?
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>Richard,
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>We just recently experienced this exact error when our app was recently installed in a Citrix environment, and I was baffled.
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>After a while, I figured out what it was - their PATH environment variable didn't have a semicolon separating two directories within the path (e.g. C:\Path1C:\Path2 should have been C:\Path1;C:\Path2).
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>Most likely there is an invalid directory specified somewhere in the user's (or system's) path.
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>Laterness,
>Jon