No, thank you for taking the time to try helping users like me.

Have a good weekend!

Hi Jeff. Thanks a lot for responding. The answer is "yes": the original data files for most of the data bases in the server get built there.

After I posted the message in...

Thank you and thanks to Erik for your advice on Global!!

That did it.

Good weekend to you all.

Pete, your suggestion is more in the direction of what I was looking for (but my thanks to everyone who tried to help me).

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Phil, you are everywhere!

Thanks for the advice. I'll try it. thanks

Yup! that did it. Thx Phil!!

Thanks for the suggestion, I'look into it. In this case I have 4 other dts that work fine in the same conditions, except this one.

Ray