Thankyou, that was indeed the case, but I don’t understand why the folder should have been deleted, but then it was in the temp folder so I guess it is valid. On that basis, I noticed that in the VisualGDB project settings the project directory can be specifically specified, however I tried to move it into the Home folder, and other folders, but I cannot get any other folder to work except the one in the tmp directory. Is there something else I have to do to move the project folder out of the tmp directory?