Are COM objects involved in any way? If it's a COM object property, than it's not a VFP array.

>the property is not hidden, nor protected. Its declared within DEFINE CLASS with DIMENSION as a property. However changing this to using ADDPROPERTY() did not resolve the problem either.
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>WIthin the Task class, ALEN(THIS.aFiles,1) works without a problem. However if the object is assigned to a variable oTask, it just bombs, while accessing oTask.afiles[1,1] works without a problem.
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>The size really is immaterial; its the result of ADIR() with about a dozen files in it.
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stumped.