While I tried to replicate your problem, one of my colleagues told me to look up MS KB article #Q201129 because he had a similar problem and he found a solution in this article.

Good luck, Stephane.

>I'm not sure. It appeared while I was testing an app I'm writing (it had a couple bugs). One of theings it does is create a new folder, a few errant vars and I ended up with " - " for a folder name. The procedure that created it used the file scripting object.
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>>I have a question: How could you create a folder with a name that starts with a space when this goes against MS folder naming convention (and hence, any space before the first alpha character is supposed to be stripped by the OS)?
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>>I tried to do it but always got caught by the OS.
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>>Stephane.