Hello Peter,
To resolve the issue of your program not being able to access the configuration files on the network server at startup, you can try the following steps:
1. Check the file permissions: Ensure that the program and the user account running it have sufficient read/write permissions on the network server where the configuration files are located. You can right-click on the configuration file, select "Properties", and go to the "Security" tab to review and modify the permissions if needed.
2. Set up a network drive mapping: Instead of accessing the configuration files via the network path (e.g., \\server\share\config), try mapping the network folder to a drive letter. To do this, open "File Explorer" and click on "Map network...