>>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\*.*" )
>>

>
>Thanks - I believe you.

I was mistaken when I wrote that originally. I was never able to repeat the problem. I still prefer not to make huge arrays however. :)