>>I'll give this one a try too.. thanks!
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>>Hope these programs don't have a problem going 10+ levels deep and reading thousands and thousands of files as this is a shared drive for everyone in the department to dump their files onto..
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>>Thanks again, I really appreciate yalls help :)
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>You can query shared files for size, date etc. however if you look closely to code the recursion used there is nesting level dependant. IOW if you have directories deeper than 127 levels it would bomb.

Cetin,

The only way that could happen is for the directory names to be a maximum of 1 characters. The length of MAX_PATH is 260. This includes the drive specifier and backslashes. 2 + 127 + 127 = 256 which means the maximum file name length under the circumstances would be 3 characters.< s >