Sergey,

I did not know that. Thank you for the information, but unfortunatly it doesn't help me because the error occured in a sub directory. I just used c:\ to show that I copied the backup file to the same directory as the original file.

Is there a setting in W2K? We did not have this problem with Win95 or Win98.

Einar

>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