>>It absolutely does always work. I only once encountered a file name was not recognized by VFP while it was perfectly valid to OS. It contained a comma.
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>I think there was a message here once upon a time, about problems encountered when a filename began with two spaces - something in the filesystem intercepted any requests to it and converted those to single space, so the file was pretty much inaccessible. Not necessarily related to Fox, though.

You also can not have . inside the path, as I just found.