My director found the answer. Replaced the letter drive "l" with the fully qualified name 'ServerName/FileShare/" and it works.

So instead of File://L:/EQuipmentdata/100305/100305/thumbs/100305_tn.jpg it is File://Localservername/Filesharefolder/EQuipmentdata/100305/100305/thumbs/100305_tn.jpg

Works great.

To answer your question the...

Yes there is a query. It is a query I wrote years back, have never had an issue running it by itself, time wise. Just recently the report has timed...

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I solved it myself. The parameter was not set up correctly in Visual Studio, Once I set that up correctly it worked like a charm.

Thanks anyways,

Cardgunner