Conner Peripherals upgraded their development machine a few weeks ago from MPE/iX 4.0 to MPE/iX 5.0 (Express 2, I believe). Overall, there have been very few problems (that I am aware of, anyway :). HOWEVER... A programmer just issued %COPY FILE.GROUP.TEST, =.GROUP2 from DEV. It happens that we have MPEXMGR.PUB.VESOFT set up with setvar mpexdefaultcopy ";KEEPATTR;KEEPAMDATES" The "KEEPATTR" portion caused the copied file to retain the creator (user AND account), and to make an ACD which enforced the same access to the original file (in this case, no write access, etc.). So, now that we know we definitely do NOT want "KEEPATTR," how do we purge the copied file?? Even being AM of the account of the new file does not let us purge this file! Our only successful attempt thus far has been to sign on as the creator of the ORIGINAL file, :CHDIR to where the copy is, :PURGE failed, :ALTSEC...;REPACD=(R,A,W,L,X,RACD:@.@), :PURGE successful. This, of course, is entirely unsatisfactory! Is there a better way? TIA! --Glenn Cole Software al dente, Inc. [log in to unmask]