Good news! it’s fixed and works perfectly 👍
Thanks so much for your guidance, can’t express how much it helps to work these challenges through with other folk.
The issue in short was that I am a bloody idiot, the longer explanation was to create the GlobalConfig_PinballX.xml file I dragged and dropped the GlobalConfig_B2SServer file and in doing so I accidentally created a shortcut. I then renamed the shortcut to GlobalConfig_PinballX.xml. That may have been possible to spot if I didn’t have a ‘hide shortcut arrows’ program running. So the plug-in could not see it but every time I checked it with a double click it remotely opened the GlobalConfig_B2SServer.xml which, being identical, looked fine <sigh> what are the odds……
Now all I have to do is find all the hair I tore out and stick it back on again 😆