Roi,

If you added a leading space to the paths, I think VFP respects the whitespace and wouldn't disable the item.

Jay

>>Roi,
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>>I don't know why it is different but \ is the character to disable an item in a list.
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>It was making me batty this morning. The example in the VFP help is almost identical to what I was doing (adding a \ to escape the real one).
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>I just did away with the intermediate array and used additem and works fine now.
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>thanks.