>Tore,
>I see the logic of your reply, but this was not the original problem. The orig problem was that File(), passed the path and file name, reported the file as missing even though the file was there and getfile() would find it. The file had no attributes set so why did File() not find it.

I realize that, but I thought I should comment it anyway.

BTW, have you checked if the file in question is hidden? If so, both file() and adir() will report .F. unless you add the necessary switches, while getfile() will in deed find the hidden file.