When you say Path, my guess is that you are referring to the string that is returned by Set("path")....correct....

My advice is to set a breakpoint in the debugger on the expression Set("path"). This will cause your program execution to terminate whenever the path changes.



>Intermittantly I discover that my path has been chopped off to 256 characters.
>I never put the path into a variable and then restore it later, so I can't figure out what's doing it.
>My frmBase class tries to open a table that is located at the end of my path (in frmBase.Init()), so I discover this only when I try to run a form. By that time, I have no idea what might have done it. I've been developing since the last time the form was run.
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>Any one have any ideas why it might happen?
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>TIA