Mohammed,

I'm sorry - I was a bit hasty in my first answer.

You should still look at your if...endif's, but also:

Exactly what do you expect ADIR() to do for you in this context?

Not wishing to be impolite, I hesitate to suggest that you should take another look at the manual, and perhaps choose a function more suited to the task of determining, wheter or not a file is present on disk.

>hi all,
>
>i try to keep the Cursor at text1 if the file found,
>but it complate all the code.
>
>

>if adir(dummy,lcFile)>0
>        MESSAGEBOX(" file exists")
>        THISFORM.TEXT1.SetFocus()
>       * RETURN
>    else
>        COPY  TO (gcDelimName) XL5
>    ENDIF
> endif
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>thanks for help.