Subject Re: allowing user to change or add an alias From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Sat, 17 Jun 2017 17:21:15 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2017-06-17 4:01 PM, Ken Mayer wrote: > > What are the permissions on that folder, or the IDAPI.CFG file? I don't > know why mine doesn't do the same thing ... Both the folder and the file have all the boxes, except Special Permissions, ticked ie full control. BDEAlias.deleteAlias() works properly. BDEAlias.createAlias() does actually create the alias but control doesn't return to dBASE. What version of Windows are you using? Mervyn.