Thanks for trying...I'm stumped and it's killing me.

>Definitely NOT a VFP problem. I just realized my laptop was not yet upgraded to SP1. I tried just as you describe below, SET DEFA TO H:(network drive letter), SET PATH TO C:. USE \mydir\mytable works as does USE mydir\mytable. This is consistent on VFP7 and VFP7 SP1, on two different machines on the same network. I also tried two variations of your example, one with the \mydir directory on the local hard drive and one with it on the network drive, just to make sure. I am simply unable to duplicate this error.
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> Randy
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>>Ok, I just applied the service pack and it didn't change anything.
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>>I don't think it has anything to do with what kind of drive letter mapping is involved. I've tried it several different ways with both NT and Novell servers as both the default drive and/or path. 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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