>I know I have read in the FoxPro help files that you should not use UNC paths. This was a while ago. Does anyone know if this still applies to VFP 9?
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>We now have to use them in one case where our small VFP 9 .EXE is run as a background service. Because it is starting as a service (which starts under a new user) there is no existing net work path mapping. We had to use UNC paths to the data on the network. It seems to run fine and very fast.

We were using UNC paths in our VFP9 application without any problems.