Jim, It sounds to me like the combination of your symptoms indicates that you are periodically losing the connection to the network drive. That would explain both the lost connection to the database, and the STATICDB message. You probably have an RBASE.CFG file on the network that has the STATICDB setting to ON, but if R:Base cannot find that at startup, it will create a new blank one in the current directory, with a default value of STATICDB set to OFF.
Sometimes it is as simple as a loose connection of a cable connector, or a bad NIC. Did any hardware get moved around when you reconfigured? Bill On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:50:50 -0600, Jim Van Dillen wrote: >We are using version 6.5++, so there is no problem about us using the >latest and greatest. >The file were originally copied from one computer to another. The "read >only" attributes have been checked a number of times in attempting to >solve this problem.

