>>There's a limit to the lengths of properties entered into the property sheet. Please show the offending property value.
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>>>I have VFP9 app originally developed on XP and then moved to a Windows 2008 server. A form in the app has a property for a data path (something like d:\datafolder\datapath\). When the form loads, the ":" is stripped out of the property value, and of course the program fails because the resulting path is invalid.
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>>>Clearly this is a platform issue - is there something we can do in the App or in Windows to correct the problem? We can certain change the app to pull the path info from metadata instead, but I would like to understand why this is happening.
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>>>TIA for your help,
>>>Margaret
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>There are two - one is "d:\capella\tables\" and the other is "d:\projects\remotewarehouse\". I do not believe we are exceeding the maximum size of the property value.

That's strange. Have you tried to set the properties in code instead, for instance in the init?