Thank you both for your replies. I did email Thom and we struggled with it but it turns out that windows wasn't allowing the Rebuild Database Utility access to the AW2000 database files.

I use Windows 8 and have been running AW2000 just fine until some update Windows did on Sunday (after instructions to NOT allow automatic updates :( ).

What Thom said got me thinking, ok, compatibility issue? So I ran the Windows Compatibility Troubleshooter on AW2000 but still no success to starting AW. But also what he said was the access not being allowing to the Rebuild Utility. So I ran the troubleshooter on that and when I tested, it rebuilt all tables successfully!

I said "save those settings" and then fired up AW2000 to almost perfect success.

I am posting this in case anyone else has Windows 8 issues. It is certainly worth a try to see if it is a compatibility problem.

When I said "almost" above...does anyone get "access violation at address 00000000. Read of address 00000000. during email functions? This has been happening for awhile but I just close it and move on.

However, as you can imagine, it is annoying.

Cheers
Barbara