>>>I've definitely had problems in the past where the timer on a form in a 24/7 EXE would fall asleep and just nudging the title bar with the mouse would wake it up. That was like VFP 7 back in the day. I also had problems with the timer in VFP 3 or so.
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>>>Anyway, we have a customer site where our app uses up to 3 timers, I believe, and it appears that they're falling asleep and not firing.
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>>>No other customer seems to be reporting this, however. But, the customer says it happens on numerous machines at their site.
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>>>The purpose of the timer is to see if a file hit a folder and then to act on it. I'm trying to extract the bind events in the VFP 9 Windows Events in the Samples and it, the event binding, seems to work.
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>>>Anybody?
>>This doesn't answer your question, Jeff, but you might want to look at the Windows Scheduler.
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>This timer is in an app that needs to consume files as they arrive, so it's not good for Windows Scheduler. BTW, I'm a big fan of Windows Scheduler for little FoxPro jobs.

Have you considered eventbinding to check for the files arriving? For what I know one can watch folders for change. And If yo can not with VFP, do with .net.