USA regulatory address cleanse

In Business Objects DS, USA regulatory address cleanse produces the error message:
Transform <USARegulatory_AddressCleanse>: RDI ERROR - RDI files not found in specified directory..
In DS client rdi path is set to: [$$RefFilesAddressCleanse]
$$RefFilesAddressCleanse is set to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Business Objects\Data Integrator 11.7\DataQuality\reference_data
Nothing has changed as far as I know and this worked a couple days ago.

David,
You specifically mentioned the settings on the client.  But is that path the right path on the machine running your job server? 
My next question is have you downloaded the RDI directories from the USPS?  You must purchase these directories directly from the USPS.  You should have these two files:
rts.hs11 and rts.hs9
Thanks,
Ryan

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