>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
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>>I prefer SYS(2000,[full path here]) > 0
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>That's the fine thing with Fox, there are (almost) always more than one way to get the same result.


I can't remember where I read this: IF you couldn't do something by 3 different ways in VFP you couldn't do it at all :-)


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>>>>Mohammed,
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>>>>I'm sorry - I was a bit hasty in my first answer.
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>>>>You should still look at your if...endif's, but also:
>>>>
>>>>Exactly what do you expect ADIR() to do for you in this context?
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>>>>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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>>>>>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
>>>>>.
>>>>>.
>>>>>.
>>>>>.
>>>>>.
>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>thanks for help.