Developing a relinking tool, and want it to cycles through the linked tables and point them to a different dbase on a different path, these are DAO connections to other databases located on paths that the user of the relinking tool will obviously not have. For instance before the connection was to an 'mdb' file which got upgarded to an 'accdb' file and we need to tweek that path in the .connect property w/out calling the standard .refresh which will cause and error because the locaiton from which this is being attempted cant see the path it's setting at the moment. using ADO to change DAO. Planning to go down the Allen Browne path in his good article at thought ? Has anyone done this ? specific experience with adox.catalog that coudl short cut my research and dev time ?