Since I'm closing each file after I open it, what limit could that be?

>How about you will do the process in a loop of ~ 100 files at once? Looks like you somehow are reaching the Excel limits, so it may help to close excel after each 100 files and repeat the process for reminder
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>>Hi All:
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>>I have a loop that processes a number of Excel files in a folder. It extracts information from each file and then closes the file. Then it loops to the next one. After about 160 files, the system chokes and throws an 'exception'. When I loop to the next file, the same exception. Here are the details:
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>>FUNCTION ExcelFileOpen(toExcel, tcFile, tlUpdateLinks, toStuff, tlProtection, tcPassword, taSheetVisible)
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>>LOCAL retparm, loWorkbook
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>>retparm = .T.
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>>TRY
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>>	loWorkbook = toExcel.Workbooks.OPEN(tcFile, tlUpdateLinks)
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>>CATCH TO ww
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>>	errortextbuild(toStuff, ;
>>		'Error in ' + JUSTSTEM(tcFile) + ': ' + 'File cannot be opened', .F., .T., .T.)
>>	retparm = .F.
>>	SUSPEND
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>>ENDTRY
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>>Some values for the object 'ww' are:
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>>baseclass  "Exception"
>>details       "80010105: The server threw an exception"
>>Errorno     1426
>>message   "OLE erroe code 0x80010105: The server threw an exception"
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Yossi