>Hi Ed,
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>I was just trying out the code after you modified it to see the results. From my experiance if you used ADIR() to populate a tree of directories and Scripting.FileSystemObject to populate the files side you should be safe even if you had 13,000+ files?? You could get the best of both so to speak...
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VFP has a limit on the size of an array - 65000 elements, assuming nothing else steps in to reduce that further. 13000 * 5 is right at the limit - 13001 is too large. If you indeed have a directory with that many entries, ADIR() and arrays are not going to be usable.

I'd consider very carefully why you have a single directory with 13000 entries in it; perhaps something should be done to reduce the number of files in this single folder. Even under NetWare, you're going to take a noticable performance hit on wildcarded searches and file open/close operations. Reorganization of the directory might be in order; perhaps you could zip sets of files as they become outdated or less frequently referenced.