Originally Posted by bigguy

I think the biggest reason no one helped was because of my damn code tags thanks to avant has now been fixed though. But yeah that EmpExists sub i have created shows the message box incase they already have a employee file with that same number. I guess it really aint an error, but sorry for the confusion.

Also kilo, about the updating this is what I am using.
File.WriteAllText(My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "\" & number & ".emp" << I specify it to write to number.emp

Is that kind of what your asking?