There's limited number of files you can create in the root directory of a volume. The volume subdirectories don't have such limitations.

>Hi there,
>
>I encountered something strange yesterday and it seems even more strange after I have sleept on it.
>
>I tried running the folowing code:
>use c:\TheTable excl
>copy to c:\TheTableBkp prod
>
>This gave an error saying that the table was in use. There is no table called TheTableBkp.
>
>It seems like VFP only recognizes the first eight letters of a filename.
>
>I am running W2K and VFP7.0
>
>I can reproduce the error but not all the time and I have not found the common factors that cause this.
>
>Has anybody seen anything like this?
>Is there a setting in Tool-Options?
>
>Einar