>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.
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>There is no better function than adir() to check if a file exists or not. File() is not reliable, because it will search the complete path even though you specify another path. So file('c:\temp\myfile.txt') will return true even if c:\temp\myfile.txt does not exist, as long as myfile.txt if found in any directory in your path.

I prefer SYS(2000,[full path here]) > 0



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>
>>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.