Now I'm really lost. Do you think it could be the operating system? I'm still using Win98_SE. I'll try it from my home PC tonight.

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>>I think it has something to do with the fact that VFP 7.0 doesn't like having two different drives >in the default drive and file path.
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>>Lets switch the scenario to my hard drive. I have a table on [C:\Temp] named "audittemp.dbf":
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>>SET DEFA TO F:
>>SET PATH TO C:
>>USE \ TEMP \ AUDITTEMP {DOESN'T work in 7.0, DOES work in 6.0}
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>>But, when I reset the default:
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>>SET DEFA TO
>>SET PATH TO C:
>>USE \ TEMP \ AUDITTEMP {WORKS in 7.0}
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>>Very strange behavior (bug),
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>Mike, I just tested this on my W2k machine with the default in vfp set to the L: drive and the path set to the t: drive and when I tried to open a table that was located in the path, it worked fine. So it cannot be a bug. I'm using VFP7 SP1 too.
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>My code that worked:
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>SET DEFAULT TO L:\profiler\data
>SET PATH TO T:
>USE \temp\test  && file is located at t:\temp\test not L: and it worked
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>Tracy