>As you mention this... This would be "my" choice if I can choose how I want to set the directories...
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>X:\ABC\LIVE\ this would be for the executables (via, ABC.EXE)
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>X:\ABC\DATA\ this would be for the databases/tables
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>X:\ABC\VFP\LIVE\ this would be for my test executables
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>X:\ABC\VFP\DATA\ this would be for my sample data
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>X:\ABC\VFP\CODE\ this would be for my programming directory
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>That way, I can hardcode "everything" as "..\DATA\&alias()". If I have to do some report (fisal year or whatever) or there's some data error, I just copy *.* from DATA to VFP\DATA. Does that sound about right for us as VFP programmer? Of course, I do not have that choice here, but thats what I did (or something close to that, it's been a while) before this position. With this way, if the directories need to be moved or anything, all it takes it to move the "ABC" directory, everything elses follows (one click-and-drag). THAT is how I got the habit of using SET DEFAULT TO...
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>>SET PATH TO ..\DATA; ..\GRAPHICS, ..\OUTPUT

FYI, VFP 6.0 includes CD (change directory), which I can type faster than SET DEFAULT TO ... It also supports UNC (Universal Naming Convention, I think), which can help if you have problems with desktops using different drive letters for network shares. So you could CD \\MYSERVER\SHARED_RESOURCE\ABC\DATA. You may know all of this already, but it looks like you might have been coming from FoxPro 2.6.