>Hi Naomi,
>
>>The number of files is not that relevant, it's either shortnames generation enabled or disabled.
>>In our case, it's enabled and thus the problems.
>
>Ah. Ok. From what I've been reading here, it now looks like it's not only the short names problem,
>but isn't it a wild-card, pattern-matching bug as well? I think I'm starting to get a bit
>confused. LOL!

As I understood from this thread:

1) If you're searching for *Mask*.Ext and you have shortnames generation enabled, you may receive false positives. Bruce in his last message pointed to an article about registry setting to change and Juri added another method to do this as well.

2) If you're searching for *Mask*.* you may find Mask in the extension.

Hopefully this summarizes this thread <g> Sorry if I missed other important points.