Hi drli611,

I just encountered this issue, and discovered it was because the executable that I was trying to write with pp was a hidden file. There were other components this program interacted with that were also hidden.

If I first either deleted the previous version of the executable, or unchecked the hidden checkbox in the EXEs properties (Windows, obviously) the issue went away.

I can't say if this is the exact same issue you are experiencing, but the message was similar.