Naomi,

>How did you get laFiles first?
>
>You can not use ADIR() on a directory with more than 13K files.

Yes you can. adir() simply won't contain any information about the excess files.

md C:\Temp\hugeadir

for i = 1 to 20000
   @0,0 say i
   strtofile( transform( i ), "C:\Temp\hugeadir\a" + padl( i, 5, "0" ) + ".txt" )
endfor
local laFiles[1]
adir( laFiles, "C:\Temp\hugeadir\*.*" )