>Hi all:
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>I'm getting intermittent instances where vfp can't recognize a file reference like in
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>Rename (lcdrive + lcfilename1) to (...)
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>I think that this is a result of some setting changed in the network, since the user is also having similar problems with Excel intermittently.
>
>Any ideas?

Filesystem object can check that for you:

ofso=createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
?ofso.getdrive(lcdrive ).isReady