The Common Dialog control does not have InitialDir property. The one you're looking for is InitDir.

>I'm trying to use the activex common dialog Open File dialog. Specifically I'd like to set the initial directory, but it doesn't seem to work:
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>loComDialog = newobject("mscomdlg.commondialog")
>loComDialog.InitialDir = "c:\projects"
>loComDialog.Filter = "All Files (*.*)|*.*|Text Files(*.txt)|*.txt|Batch Files (*.bat)|*.bat"
>loComDialog.FilterIndex = 2
>loComDialog.MaxFileSize = 260 
>loComDialog.ShowOpen()
>lcFileName = loComDialog.FileName
>MESSAGEBOX(lcFileName)
>

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>The folder c:\projects exists. Anyone know what's wrong?