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Hello Conrad

Thanks for your quick response.

I have done what you suggested, converting the path name of the secondary book fr om absolute to relative, and it works fine.  In fact I'm using such a portable viewer right now to access my work machine from home.

I think, however, that there is a bug involved here.  If, for whatever reason, the drive on which a secondary address book is stored (with an absolute pathname) is not accessible, then the address book manager will not open, and the viewer cannot be shut down normally.  In both cases an error message is produced, and shut down has to be forced using task manager.

This happened to me originally when I moved a portable viewer on a USB drive to a different machine wh ere a different drive letter was assigned.

I have also tested it with an installed viewer, putting the secondary address book on a mapped network drive, closing the viewer, unmapping the drive, and re-opening the viewer.  Similar errors then occurred opening the address book manager and closing the viewer.

On the other hand, if the file for a secondary address book is just renamed, moved, or deleted (perhaps by accident) then a simple file not found message is produced, address book manager can be opened, and the viewer can be shut down normally.

I copied the portable viewer to a USB drive, ran the viewer, added a secondary address book stored on the same drive, and added a computer in the secondary address book, all without problem.  I could connect to the remote computer OK.

When I tried to use the viewer on this USD drive at a different computer (where the drive had a different drive letter), the computer in the secondary address book did not appear.  When I tried to open the address book manager, I got the following error message:-

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Error report - Remote Utilities Viewer
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Class: EFCreateError
Text: Cannot create file "I:\RemoteUtilities\version 6.0.0.4\viewer6.0en.portable\trial address book.xml". The system cannot find the path specified
Version: 60004 (0)
Id: {A0DA5A48-6346-4788-B87E-5705B72F76FE}
Date: 30-01-2015 20-32-30
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Stack list
(000BF269){rutview.exe } [004C0269] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $55F25
(000BF188){rutview.exe } [004C0188] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $55E44
(003841E5){rutview.exe } [007851E5] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $31AEA1
(0060C994){rutview.exe } [00A0D994] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $5A3650
(0060C735){rutview.exe } [00A0D735] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $5A33F1
(00985C75){rutview.exe } [00D86C75] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $91C931
(000D2557){rutview.exe } [004D3557] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $69213
(0077B793){rutview.exe } [00B7C793] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $71244F
(00781E43){rutview.exe } [00B82E43] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $718AFF
(0078593A){rutview.exe } [00B8693A] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $71C5F6
(007A8AD0){rutview.exe } [00BA9AD0] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $73F78C
(007B1A12){rutview.exe } [00BB2A12] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $7486CE
(007A73A2){rutview.exe } [00BA83A2] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $73E05E
(007AF4B9){rutview.exe } [00BB04B9] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $746175
(00157115){rutview.exe } [00558115] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $EDDD1
(0015BBE2){rutview.exe } [0055CBE2] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $F289E
(007A7F37){rutview.exe } [00BA8F37] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $73EBF3
(007B35E6){rutview.exe } [00BB45E6] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $74A2A2
(0015B21C){rutview.exe } [0055C21C] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $F1ED8
(000D324C){rutview.exe } [004D424C] Unknown function at TMethodImplementationIntercept + $69F08
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A similar error occurred on trying to shut down the viewer, and I had to force shut down from task manager.