>Tommy,
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>Assuming you are using VFP 9, you can check in the "Task Pane" -> "New in Visual Foxpro 9.0" -> "Binding to Windows Message events" -> "File/Folder Shell Events" that will get you an almost immediate response once a file is created without wasting CPU in a loop

Now that sounds good! But alas.... VFP8.0 SP1..... not today!

Thanks!!