diff --git a/tools/AccountSynchronizer/accountSynchronizer/manifest.txt b/tools/AccountSynchronizer/accountSynchronizer/manifest.txt
index 702c798c8715f4c1fc7dc54dd7ac0f11ee8b68b9..edfc2f64aabe2362aeea98f9189ca6c7253ee845 100644
--- a/tools/AccountSynchronizer/accountSynchronizer/manifest.txt
+++ b/tools/AccountSynchronizer/accountSynchronizer/manifest.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 Main-Class: gov.anl.aps.dm.sync.Synchronizer
-Class-Path: ../../lib/ojdbc7.jar ../../lib/postgresql-9.4-1201.jdbc4.jar ../../lib/unboundid-ldapsdk-me.jar ../resources
+Class-Path: . ../../lib/postgresql-9.4-1201.jdbc4.jar ../../lib/unboundid-ldapsdk-me.jar
+
diff --git a/tools/AccountSynchronizer/accountSynchronizer/src/gov/anl/aps/dm/sync/Synchronizer.java b/tools/AccountSynchronizer/accountSynchronizer/src/gov/anl/aps/dm/sync/Synchronizer.java
index 4d9ef33223be3de6ba8f5e945d17f64d298e6e5f..f9525559c632523ca74fdba4d7aa382ca3999aa7 100644
--- a/tools/AccountSynchronizer/accountSynchronizer/src/gov/anl/aps/dm/sync/Synchronizer.java
+++ b/tools/AccountSynchronizer/accountSynchronizer/src/gov/anl/aps/dm/sync/Synchronizer.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package gov.anl.aps.dm.sync;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.sql.ResultSet;
 import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.sql.Date;
@@ -11,11 +12,9 @@ import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
 public class Synchronizer {
-//    private final LdapConn lConnection = new LdapConn();
     private OracleConnection oConnection;
     private PsqlConnection pConnection;
     private final Properties config = new Properties();
-//    private final String configFile = "config.properties";
     private final Properties tableRows = new Properties();
     private final String oracleTable = "oracleTable.properties";
     private FileHandler fileHandler;
@@ -33,7 +32,13 @@ public class Synchronizer {
     }
     
     private void loadProperties(String configFile) {
-        InputStream configInputStream = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(configFile);
+        InputStream configInputStream = null;
+	try {
+               configInputStream = new FileInputStream(configFile);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+               e.printStackTrace();
+        }    
+
         if (configInputStream != null) {
             try {
                 this.config.load(configInputStream);
@@ -43,7 +48,7 @@ public class Synchronizer {
                 System.exit(-1);
             }
         } else {
-        	initDefaultLogger();
+            initDefaultLogger();
             logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "can't find configuration file");
             System.exit(-1);
         }
diff --git a/tools/AccountSynchronizer/lib/ojdbc7.jar b/tools/AccountSynchronizer/lib/ojdbc7.jar
deleted file mode 100755
index fd38a6c4a5087be6da928776b920d6b9fbe70454..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Binary files a/tools/AccountSynchronizer/lib/ojdbc7.jar and /dev/null differ