Hi David,

Thanks for your answer.
(you gave me already some help already Sept 29th 2005)

Detail information about my DB:
1. developed in A97 (started in year 1998)
2. converted in A2000 --> working with replication

10 years later - This is now my configuration (since 2005):
3. Changing to a Terminalserver-Environment  (Terminalserver 2003/Access 2003
in Access 2000 Mode)
Therefore I use the Designmaster on Terminalserver - splitted in BE+FEs (14
FEs) -
as recommended in some postings on accessmonster.com. This works great! I
have no other replicas which are generated with replication manager (only the
FEs which are copy from Designmaster-FE)!!
That means I don´t work with replication an I need not to synchronize.

(INFO: great advantage of using the Designmaster is that user of the FEs
can´t make changes in forms, reports an so on).

The problem since yesterday is that every time  you start the DB (FE) the
message ("must synchronize the replicat within xx days / can`t synchronize
the replicat ......) is displayed; it`s
not really funny for the 14 users.

I had this problem already in the year 2005. 2005 I changed the retention
period (from 60 to 1000) as described in my posting (now 994 days are over);
but now it isn´t possible to change the retention period.

That means I only need a possibility to change the retention period in
Designmaster, then no message appears and all users are lucky

I hope you understand my problem ...

Thank you
Chris