The only advantage, AFAIK, is avoiding the time and memory overhead of the ACOPY's and extra arrays but if the arrays are small this will be negligible to totally nonapparent

>>PMFJI Paul, but if the five array properties and the GetServerFilesFromDir() method are in the same form you could just pass the name of the array and use macro substitution in the method like so:
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>Hi Colin and Roi:
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>I never thought about using macro substitution. In any case, I have already coded my form using ACOPY. Unless these is some big advantage of using macro substitution I will leave it alone.
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>Thanks for the tip!
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>--Paul