John, I agree with Keith here. I got the error you mentioned when translating a file until I created the brlblst and temp directories. As soon as I did that, it worked as expected. This would indicate that the folders need to be created first and that is not taking place. I did notice in the path of the file that it was trying to open in the error that there were two "\" characters before the file2brl.log filename. I don't know if this is an issue or not but it didn't look right. I hope this helps. Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A., Vic E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx