>>>>Never trust file()!
>>>>

>>>>?dir('\yourtable.dbf') && Will return true as long as yourtable.dbf is in your path!!
>>>>?adir(temp,'\yourtable.dbf')>0 && Will respect the path specified
>>>>

>>>>
>>>Can you elaborate, please? I tried to reproduce a problem on demand in IDE and I can not.
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>>This message contains a big typo, when I meant file(), I accidentally wrote dir().
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>>The problem with file() is when you use file() to check for a file in the root (directory or mapping). As long as the file is in the path, VFP will find it even if it's NOT in the root.
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>Ok, let me try it. You're saying, if we're searching for c:\test.txt and we have file test.txt in the currect folder (in the path) it does return .t. ?
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>I tried in IDE
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>file('c:\test.txt') having created the file test.txt in the current directory and it correctly returned .f. I didn't try it in run-time, I tried in IDE.

I just tested myself. I have a file p:\data\kundlist.dbf. ?File('p:\kundlist.dbf') returned .T. since p:\data is in my path, which is WRONG. With blank path the same call returned .F.