Or use XDIR class. Download #25487 (That is because I CC to Ravi)

>>>>>>Hi !
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Is anybody have an idea to get the total numbers of files of a folder. We have more than 20000 files in a folder and we want to check the total numbers of files exist in folders.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We have tried =ADIR() function to the same but it give an error "Invalid subscript reference" or "subscript out of range".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks in advance
>>>>>>Ravi Mehrotra
>>>>>
>>>>>I just tried

>>>>>?ADir(dummy,'mypath\*.*')

>>>>>with a directory with more than 54000 files. Worked fine.
>>>>Tore, didn't you tryed this with VFP9?
>>>>VFP8 still has a limitation for Maximum # of elements per array 65000 (54000*5=270000)
>>>
>>>Yes, I tried it with VFP9. Does anyone still use older versions?
>>
>>Ravi pointed the version.
>>And I do till today :-) From now on I move to VFP9. Hurray!
>
>Congratulations, better late than never!
>
>I guess Ravi must stick to something like

>List file like yourpath\*.* to file dummy.txt
>lcDummy=FileToStr('dummy.txt')
>?GetWordCount(lcDummy)

>This will no give the exact number of files, because the dummy.txt file will include some additional information.