>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have the following code that is supposed to set the current directory to a folder:
>>>
>>>

>>>cDirectName = "\\someservername\app_name\data_folder\"
>>>set default to (cDirectName)
>>>

>>>
>>>Sometimes the above works (on the customer server) but more often it does not. When I check - using CURDIR() - after the set default, it returns some other folder on the server. I noticed that it sets to folder "data_folder" but to a mapped drive (not mapped to the required folder).
>>>
>>>What should I change?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>
>>I verified that the SET DEFAULT does indeed work. But following this SET DEFAULT I have GetFile() command. And it looks like GetFile() is what DOES NOT work. As it opens the Window dialog in a different folder than the current one.
>
>That's strange. I have many places code something like this, which has never caused any problems. Maybe you need to add Fullpath().
>

>
>lcDefault = fullpath(set("Default"))
>lcDataDir = 'd:\data\somefolder\'
>set default to (lcDataDir))
>lcTxtFile = fullpath(getfile('txt'))
>set default to (lcDefault)

You see, on my computer when I use a mapped drive (just like you did, e.g. 'd:\data\somefolder\') everything works. It is when on customer site and they use a UNC (e.g. '\\servername\appname\data\') the program (GetFile()) has a problem.