Let me start by saying we've found a workaround, so I'm posting this because I want to know the answer, not because I need a solution.

A vertical market application I'm working on has a routine that copies a couple of files from one folder to another, changing the name in the process. It's been working for quite some time, but last week, some (but not all) users started having problems. The error log shows that there's an extra folder in the path for the source file. That is, there's a variable with a value like:

C:\MyFolder\MyFile.FRX

When COPY FILE is handed this variable, the error message says it can't find:

C:\MyFolder\Reports\MyFile.FRX

In trying to track this down this morning, we actually replaced the variable with a hard-coded path to the file, so the command was like:

COPY FILE C:\MyFolder\MyFile.FRX TO C:\MyOtherFolder\MyOtherFile.FRX

We still got an error that showed Reports in the path.

What can I add? These aren't actually on C; the folders are on a mapped drive. The source file exists and we have no problem copying it via Explorer.

As I said, we've found a work-around. We're using the CopyFile API function and it works as expected.

Anybody have a clue what would cause this?

Tamar