>>>>I am surprised that FILE() does not have an option to prevent VFP from searching in the VFP path. I know you can use ADIR().
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>>>Yes, you can.
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>>You mean yes you can use ADIR, right? Now that VFP language is frozen it's too late to ask for that option, I presume.
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>>It hasn't bothered me because in the past data my files were only once in path, I guess. On the other hand, I may have had mistakes without knowing it!
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>Yes, I meant that you can use ADIR() if you want to be sure that file only exists at the location specified by it path.

As far as I understood, the question was whether you could PREVENT File() to search in the VFP path, in other words force File() to only search ONLY in the default directory.